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TheseGoTo11

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Aug 8, 2007
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I have my Time Machine hooked up to a Time Capsule and it seems that Time Machine is backing up an excessive amount of data throughout the day. Normally the backups are just 5-10 MB, however it seems that once or twice a day it backs up 2-3 GB worth of data. I don't do much saving/creating/modifying of files during the day...just web-based programs, iTunes (no downloads), etc. Thoughts?
 
Do you ever modify the tags in iTunes? Time Machine is smart, but not as smart as it could be. If any part of a file changes, it re-backups the whole file.
 
Do you use vmware, aperture, or lightroom. In all of those apps they have large container files that any small change could result in backing up the entire file.
 
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