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Apple Computing Products:
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Time Machine - Backup Runs out of space
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1850331" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>John, I don't think the coincidence of 1.5 GB in the backup to the size of the Dropbox folder is significant, unless somehow you have set up Dropbox to re-sync every document every hour. There are a lot of hidden and system files that change all the time that could add to that 1.5GB in the backup--logs, configurations, mailboxes, etc. My twice a day backup runs about 3-5 GB if all I do is some minor editing in Word and do some web browsing. </p><p></p><p>It's very puzzling on the backup being so large. Clearly you are backing up something more than once. May even be the entire drive! Can you open TM preferences, then click on the "Options' box and see what it says about the estimated size of a full backup just below the exclude these items box?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1850331, member: 396914"] John, I don't think the coincidence of 1.5 GB in the backup to the size of the Dropbox folder is significant, unless somehow you have set up Dropbox to re-sync every document every hour. There are a lot of hidden and system files that change all the time that could add to that 1.5GB in the backup--logs, configurations, mailboxes, etc. My twice a day backup runs about 3-5 GB if all I do is some minor editing in Word and do some web browsing. It's very puzzling on the backup being so large. Clearly you are backing up something more than once. May even be the entire drive! Can you open TM preferences, then click on the "Options' box and see what it says about the estimated size of a full backup just below the exclude these items box? [/QUOTE]
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