Time Machine: erroneous "not enough space" error?

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  1. bigwig, Jun 7, 2009

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    I'm getting a "not enough space" error when trying to back up a 1TB disk to a 1TB disk. Time Machine says it needs 953G to back up the 794G on my disk. :mad: The backup disk is newly formatted with Apple Partition Map. Any idea what's causing this?
     
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  2. Enigmafan420, Jun 7, 2009

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    Never seen this before-what options did you use when partitioning the HD?

    It would not surprise me if TM needed a small amount of additional space for the back-up (an amount larger than the final "product". But nearly 200 GB seems sort of excessive to me.
     
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  3. bigwig, Jun 7, 2009

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    One partition, Apple Partition Map.
     
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