Time Machine Backups

[standingquiet]

Just started using a Time Machine and have a question. Is it suppose to back up your whole HDD everytime? I thought the first time it was suppose to then after just stuff that was added to the Mac since the last backup?

Just gonna get a bit tedious backing up 100gb everyday


Matt

 

[costabunny]

it should only backup files that have changed since the last backup each time.

 

[standingquiet]

Thats what i thought but its doing the whole thing, i've noticed though its doing it quite fast 35gb in 15mins so far.

 

[costabunny]

do you have any virtual machines? if so they could be large and might be what is updating... (I keep mine on the exclude list and make a copy once a week manually)