I have time machine backing up to two external drives one wd mybook live and the other is a time capsule.
As the MBA is new the first back up to the mybook live was around 100GB, today I am doing the first back up to TC and the amount that it is backing up is only 8.55GB. I have double checked the options and no items are excluded from back ups.
Indeed under options where you can exclude items under box it says "estimated size of full back up: 101.18GB"
Does anybody have any idea as to what might be going on?
Another quick query is why the amount that was backed up by the mybook live is slightly less than the mac says is being used. Is this because there are things that TM just doesn't back up such as the operating system etc? Roughly what is the size of what it doesn't back up?
I am a bit OCD about backing up having lost some things a few years ago. Better safe than sorry
Many thanks
macgrl
As the MBA is new the first back up to the mybook live was around 100GB, today I am doing the first back up to TC and the amount that it is backing up is only 8.55GB. I have double checked the options and no items are excluded from back ups.
Indeed under options where you can exclude items under box it says "estimated size of full back up: 101.18GB"
Does anybody have any idea as to what might be going on?
Another quick query is why the amount that was backed up by the mybook live is slightly less than the mac says is being used. Is this because there are things that TM just doesn't back up such as the operating system etc? Roughly what is the size of what it doesn't back up?
I am a bit OCD about backing up having lost some things a few years ago. Better safe than sorry
Many thanks
macgrl
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