Okay, so I finally got around to getting my NAS, and for the last few days I've been doing an initial Time Machine back (~2.7tb so it's taken a while!). Now, Time Machine's progress showed that the backup should have finished yesterday, however it hasn't, once it reached "About 5 seconds" it just kept copying.
Now, I'm not surprised that Time Machine has found more stuff to copy as stuff will have changed during the lengthy backup, but it's now up to nearly 770gb of extra stuff and the backup is well above the 2.7tb size that I expected. My NAS can easily accommodate more, but I have no idea what Time Machine is actually now backing up and why it doesn't seem to want to finish!
One thing I notice is that Time Machine is announcing "Backing up 826,847 items" even though the total backup should be ~970,000 files and should have backed up all of them by now. Thing is I don't remember the count going down before, I thought it just listed the total number of files and stayed there while announcing the amount of data copied, but it just isn't going anywhere.
But it's like it's doing the whole backup again which doesn't make any sense; do I leave it or is there a way to force it to just verify and finish what's already there? It's still backing up into the first .inprogress bundle, but I don't see why it should be copying all the same files as they should already be in there! So is eating up space with duplicates or what?
I'm just going to continue watching the file count count down to see if it does actually finish, but if it runs too low on space then I'll have to trash it and try starting again, but I'm just completely confused as to what it's doing! I did have to interrupt Time Machine to shut down at night, is throwing a fit from that? If I do have to wipe and start again then I may try reducing my backup size to something I can copy in a day and just remove items from my exclude list until everything is being backed up again, but I don't see why I should have to do this.
Now, I'm not surprised that Time Machine has found more stuff to copy as stuff will have changed during the lengthy backup, but it's now up to nearly 770gb of extra stuff and the backup is well above the 2.7tb size that I expected. My NAS can easily accommodate more, but I have no idea what Time Machine is actually now backing up and why it doesn't seem to want to finish!
One thing I notice is that Time Machine is announcing "Backing up 826,847 items" even though the total backup should be ~970,000 files and should have backed up all of them by now. Thing is I don't remember the count going down before, I thought it just listed the total number of files and stayed there while announcing the amount of data copied, but it just isn't going anywhere.
But it's like it's doing the whole backup again which doesn't make any sense; do I leave it or is there a way to force it to just verify and finish what's already there? It's still backing up into the first .inprogress bundle, but I don't see why it should be copying all the same files as they should already be in there! So is eating up space with duplicates or what?
I'm just going to continue watching the file count count down to see if it does actually finish, but if it runs too low on space then I'll have to trash it and try starting again, but I'm just completely confused as to what it's doing! I did have to interrupt Time Machine to shut down at night, is throwing a fit from that? If I do have to wipe and start again then I may try reducing my backup size to something I can copy in a day and just remove items from my exclude list until everything is being backed up again, but I don't see why I should have to do this.