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| DATE | Nov 11, 2007 |
| TICKET | #334965 |
| STATUS | Closed |
| SUBJECT | Time machine not merely saving changes |
| CAT | Computers, Operating Systems, Applications or Connected Devices |
| TYPE | Operating System Features, Bugs and Problems |
| DESC | Apple |
| DESC | 10.4.X (Tiger) |
| PLATFORM | Apple Macintosh (PowerPC G3,G4,G5) |
| MODEL | iBook G4 |
| PROC | 1.2 GHz |
| RAM | 512 |
| DRIVE | 60Gb |
| NAME | stuart |
| USERNAME | stu-b |
| TECHNICAL | Little Experience |
| ISSUE | Some Troubleshooting |
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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Time machine not merely saving changes
stu-b - Nov 11, 2007 - 4:06 pm
Time machine manual indicates that the first backup takes a long time as it backs up everything. From there on it only updates files that have changed. The first backup took approx 4 hours saving about 40Gb. The second back up, two days later, took over an hour and saved over 10Gb (after I had removed items requiring back up). I would suggest the items changed over two days were not more than 20 Mb. Is there something I am doing wrong?
ScottW - Nov 12, 2007 - 11:37 am
Stuart,
Time Machine backs up all changes, not just change you are aware of. Each day, your computer generates logs files, cached file (from web browsing), downloaded emails, email attachments, etc. Anytime you move files, from one location to another on the directory tree, it will generate a new backup of that file.
This can add up pretty quickly.
I would monitor it and see if it is doing that on a regular basis and you are not browsing, downloading or do anything that much different that would justify that much information - and more importantly, not moving things around. It should drop off drastically until you make any major file structure changes to your folders.
Scott
Time Machine backs up all changes, not just change you are aware of. Each day, your computer generates logs files, cached file (from web browsing), downloaded emails, email attachments, etc. Anytime you move files, from one location to another on the directory tree, it will generate a new backup of that file.
This can add up pretty quickly.
I would monitor it and see if it is doing that on a regular basis and you are not browsing, downloading or do anything that much different that would justify that much information - and more importantly, not moving things around. It should drop off drastically until you make any major file structure changes to your folders.
Scott
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