Question on backup size on new Macbook

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  1. sinsin07, Jun 18, 2012

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    Hello

    I just backup a a new Macbook Pro 17 to a Western Digital Elemements 2TB drive.

    I am new to Macs so I have a couple of concerns/questions

    The Macbook had nothing installed on it, vanilla setup.

    My two concerns
    1: The reformat of the drive using the directions found in the link below took less than 10 minutes. For 2TB I thought it would be much longer.
    Mac OSX 10.5.x (Leopard), 10.6.x (Snow Leopard), and 10.7.x (Lion)
    2: The first backup using time machine took about 10 minutes. The total size of the backup is 10.33GB

    Are any of these things normal or out of norm?

    Thanks
     
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  2. Dave Braine, Jun 19, 2012

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    For a brand new, empty drive, that could be about right.

    Time Machine should do a complete backup of your Mac on it's first run. Select your MacHD on the desktop, then Right/Ctrl click and select Get Info. It should tell you the drive's capacity and how much is used. Does it agree with the 10.33Gb of the backup?
     
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