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Apple Computing Products:
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Time Machine backs up everything every hour!
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<blockquote data-quote="PeterSG" data-source="post: 1454106" data-attributes="member: 275331"><p>I reviewed all the documents you recommended, found no problems, and acted per the Full Reset document.</p><p></p><p>After reviewing the documents, I should point out that in doing so many backups over the last several weeks, there was never an error message of any sort.</p><p></p><p>Then I did the full reset of Time Machine:</p><p></p><p> Deleted the Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist</p><p></p><p>Then I did a backup with the following results. Note that <u>it did two backups within the one backup.</u></p><p></p><p>Overall elapsed time = 35 minutes.</p><p>First Backup</p><p>Item count = 8,147 Backup size = 27.08 GB</p><p></p><p>Second Backup</p><p>Item count = 7,830 Backup size = 4.1 MB</p><p></p><p>It used the last 7 minutes of the 35 minutes to do "Finishing" and "Cleaning Up" steps.</p><p></p><p>~~~~~</p><p></p><p>I then changed a word document -- and nothing else.</p><p></p><p>Two minutes later I initiated a Time Machine backup. This backup took a total elapsed time of 17 minutes.</p><p></p><p>It also did <u> two backups within the one backup.</u></p><p></p><p>First Backup</p><p>Item count = 7,840 Backup size = 161.1 MB</p><p></p><p>Second Backup</p><p>Item count = 7,829 Backup size = No size was specified. This is a first in this process.</p><p></p><p>It used the last 3 minutes of the 17 minutes to do "Finishing" and "Cleaning Up" steps.</p><p></p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p></p><p>Please accept my Thank You for applying your effort and experience to help me resolve little problem!</p><p></p><p>Peter</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PeterSG, post: 1454106, member: 275331"] I reviewed all the documents you recommended, found no problems, and acted per the Full Reset document. After reviewing the documents, I should point out that in doing so many backups over the last several weeks, there was never an error message of any sort. Then I did the full reset of Time Machine: Deleted the Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist Then I did a backup with the following results. Note that [U]it did two backups within the one backup.[/U] Overall elapsed time = 35 minutes. First Backup Item count = 8,147 Backup size = 27.08 GB Second Backup Item count = 7,830 Backup size = 4.1 MB It used the last 7 minutes of the 35 minutes to do "Finishing" and "Cleaning Up" steps. ~~~~~ I then changed a word document -- and nothing else. Two minutes later I initiated a Time Machine backup. This backup took a total elapsed time of 17 minutes. It also did [U] two backups within the one backup.[/U] First Backup Item count = 7,840 Backup size = 161.1 MB Second Backup Item count = 7,829 Backup size = No size was specified. This is a first in this process. It used the last 3 minutes of the 17 minutes to do "Finishing" and "Cleaning Up" steps. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please accept my Thank You for applying your effort and experience to help me resolve little problem! Peter [/QUOTE]
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