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Initial Time Machine Backup is Bigger than the HD being backed up?

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christall109

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Jun 15, 2007
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Why is this happening/how can I fix it?

See the screen shot below for explanation:
 

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Peace

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Space The Only Frontier
If you read what it says you will understand it. Time Machine needs more space than the actual backup in order to do more backups and a buffer/work space.

Try to exclude some folders from the backup.

Where are you backing up to ?
 
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