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<blockquote data-quote="Lariat" data-source="post: 1649686" data-attributes="member: 293205"><p>I have a LaCie external hard drive that is my Time Machine backup destination. It's plenty big enough (4TB) to hold the contents of my 3TB iMac, since I only have about 750GB of files so far on the iMac.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that when I go into the Time Machine to see if a file is there, it often isn't. Even though the file is still on my iMac's internal hard drive, it doesn't show up in a Time Machine backup in some cases until I go way, way back. And I never know how far back I need to go to find it.</p><p></p><p>My first question: Is this normal? Shouldn't every backup done by the LaCie include <em>everything</em> until it's full? (Currently 2.6TB of storage is still available on the LaCie.)</p><p></p><p>My second question: If this is normal operation, then how do I know how far back I need to go in Time Machine to find a particular file? It could be on any day's backup between now and when I got the LaCie last July.</p><p></p><p>The internal hard drive on my iMac hasn't failed--but I want the security of knowing I'll be able to find a file if it ever does.</p><p></p><p>Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lariat, post: 1649686, member: 293205"] I have a LaCie external hard drive that is my Time Machine backup destination. It's plenty big enough (4TB) to hold the contents of my 3TB iMac, since I only have about 750GB of files so far on the iMac. The problem is that when I go into the Time Machine to see if a file is there, it often isn't. Even though the file is still on my iMac's internal hard drive, it doesn't show up in a Time Machine backup in some cases until I go way, way back. And I never know how far back I need to go to find it. My first question: Is this normal? Shouldn't every backup done by the LaCie include [I]everything[/I] until it's full? (Currently 2.6TB of storage is still available on the LaCie.) My second question: If this is normal operation, then how do I know how far back I need to go in Time Machine to find a particular file? It could be on any day's backup between now and when I got the LaCie last July. The internal hard drive on my iMac hasn't failed--but I want the security of knowing I'll be able to find a file if it ever does. Thanks. [/QUOTE]
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