again with the HUGE time machine backups

[MarlboroLite]

This is pretty frustrating as I do everything humanly possibly to exclude all the obvious things from time machine (downloads, cache, iOS apps) as well as the notorious problem areas (virtual machine).

About 3 weeks ago I upgraded to a new 500GB hard drive, transferred everything from Time Machine and everything took place OK. Today I go ahead to do a backup and after preparing the 500,000 files it told me that it was about to do a 33GB backup! THIRTY THREE GIGS!!!! How is this possible? The excluded folders are still there--obviously I have not changed around 33GB worth of stuff on my computer in 3 weeks. I have BackupLoup to check what gets changed but I am not about to eat up 33GB on the external hard drive just so I can figure out what the hell it is that Time Machine wanted to back up when I can't erase that backup!

Can anyone think of any reason why this would be happening?

 

[miles01110]

Can anyone think of any reason why this would be happening?

Torrents.

 

[ErikGrim]

Can anyone think of any reason why this would be happening?

Are you using Entourage?

 

[Nermal]

Torrents.

Also VMware and similar products. It pays to exclude anything with large, frequently-changing files. Some torrent clients allow you to move completed downloads into a different folder, so you can back up completed files without having to back up the partially-downloaded ones.

 

[MarlboroLite]

Also VMware and similar products. It pays to exclude anything with large, frequently-changing files. Some torrent clients allow you to move completed downloads into a different folder, so you can back up completed files without having to back up the partially-downloaded ones.

As I said, I already exclude VWWare. Concerning the torrents, I'm not sure what you mean...when I download a torrent, both the .torrent file and the actual file are put in the Downloads folder, which I already exclude. So unless I need to exclude the actual torrent client I'm not sure I understand.

 

[hfg]

Are your VMware virtual machines still installed in the EXACT same location path that you exclude for Time Machine? Sounds very much like a windows VM is not being excluded. Might be worth deleting it from your TM excludes and re-entering it.

 

[Nermal]

As I said, I already exclude VWWare.

Oops, so you did

Concerning the torrents, I'm not sure what you mean...when I download a torrent, both the .torrent file and the actual file are put in the Downloads folder, which I already exclude. So unless I need to exclude the actual torrent client I'm not sure I understand.

Sounds like you're already set.

 

[MarlboroLite]

Oops, so you did



Sounds like you're already set.

then i give up...I removed everything and re-added it to the exclude list and it still came up with the gigantic back up. I don't know what else to do