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Time Machine - Abnormal Look on MBPro?
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1636369" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>I was doing a bunch of experimenting last night in it - which I had never really done before because I only use TM as a duplicate backup system to SuperDuper!. I have, at this point, never had to restore something that I have previously deleted. </p><p></p><p>I am taking a wild guess based on what mine looks like here - the tabs that are blank at the top on mine vary depending on the particular folder I have selected. Based on looking at the ones where I still have hourly backups available and knowing my habits in the early morning hours, it appears the blank tabs may be those where a backup started and while the backup was ongoing, the machine was put to sleep. In my case, I have backups that are only minutes apart - can only guess due to closing the lid while I went to get another cup of coffee or the boys room. So, I'm getting the blank page in a folder for a particular backup for folders that did not get backed up at that time but the blank folder indicates that there are at least some folders that did complete prior to my closing the lid. It looks like the Applications folder may be one of the first folders that is backed up when TM starts because that page/folder is viewable in all of the instances where the page is blank in other folders.</p><p></p><p>Looking at much older folders - say a year+ ago - perhaps those are backups where a portion of the backup has been deleted by TM - either due to space on the external drive or the individual folder is same as other later backups and no reason to duplicate the database?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1636369, member: 24160"] I was doing a bunch of experimenting last night in it - which I had never really done before because I only use TM as a duplicate backup system to SuperDuper!. I have, at this point, never had to restore something that I have previously deleted. I am taking a wild guess based on what mine looks like here - the tabs that are blank at the top on mine vary depending on the particular folder I have selected. Based on looking at the ones where I still have hourly backups available and knowing my habits in the early morning hours, it appears the blank tabs may be those where a backup started and while the backup was ongoing, the machine was put to sleep. In my case, I have backups that are only minutes apart - can only guess due to closing the lid while I went to get another cup of coffee or the boys room. So, I'm getting the blank page in a folder for a particular backup for folders that did not get backed up at that time but the blank folder indicates that there are at least some folders that did complete prior to my closing the lid. It looks like the Applications folder may be one of the first folders that is backed up when TM starts because that page/folder is viewable in all of the instances where the page is blank in other folders. Looking at much older folders - say a year+ ago - perhaps those are backups where a portion of the backup has been deleted by TM - either due to space on the external drive or the individual folder is same as other later backups and no reason to duplicate the database? [/QUOTE]
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