Time Machine Not Backing Up Everything?!

Did you check your exclusions list for time machine? You do also realize that putting data on your backup drive that is not backed up data makes no sense. Because the point of a backup is to have the data in two places (not two partitions). Just a thought. My guess is that your issue may have something to do with the fact that time machine doesn't like backing up data on the same drive as the time machine volume (for the reason mentioned above).

 

as far as I read on Apples website time machine does backup but not everything. It should backup all the data but not all the permissions. Why dont you try CarbonCopy Cloner?

 

How about 'Write-Only' folders?

Anyone know if Time Machine backs-up 'Write-Only' folders?

(I don't mean to hijack a thread but I think Mr. Monsieur received a conclusion, and I didn't want to start a seperate thread.)

 

Here is a list of "standard exclusions"...

Code:

[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Blue"]defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions[/COLOR]
{
    ContentsExcluded =     (
        "/Volumes",
        "/Network",
        "/automount",
        "/.vol",
        "/tmp",
        "/cores",
        "/private/tmp",
        "/private/Network",
        "/private/tftpboot",
        "/private/var/automount",
        "/private/var/folders",
        "/private/var/run",
        "/private/var/tmp",
        "/private/var/vm",
        "/private/var/db/dhcpclient",
        "/private/var/db/fseventsd",
        "/Library/Caches",
        "/Library/Logs",
        "/System/Library/Caches",
        "/System/Library/Extensions/Caches"
    );
    FileContentsExcluded =     (
        "/private/var/log",
        "/private/var/spool/cups",
        "/private/var/spool/fax",
        "/private/var/spool/uucp"
    );
    PathsExcluded =     (
        "/.Spotlight-V100",
        "/.Trashes",
        "/.fseventsd",
        "/.hotfiles.btree",
        "/Backups.backupdb",
        "/Desktop DB",
        "/Desktop DF",
        "/Network/Servers",
        "/Previous Systems",
        "/Users/Shared/SC Info",
        "/Users/Guest",
        "/dev",
        "/home",
        "/net",
        "/private/var/db/Spotlight",
        "/private/var/db/Spotlight-V100"
    );
    UserPathsExcluded =     (
        "Library/Application Support/SyncServices/data.version",
        "Library/Caches",
        "Library/Logs",
        "Library/Mail/Envelope Index",
        "Library/Mail/AvailableFeeds",
        "Library/Mirrors",
        "Library/PubSub/Database",
        "Library/PubSub/Downloads",
        "Library/PubSub/Feeds",
        "Library/Safari/Icons.db",
        "Library/Safari/WebpageIcons.db",
        "Library/Safari/HistoryIndex.sk"
    );
}
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Also, certain select files may be given a special extended attribute...

Code:

[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Blue"]ls -lhn@ ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music\ Library.xml[/COLOR]
-rw-r--r--@ 1 501  501    25M Sep 11 00:03 /Users/halito/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml	
	com.apple.FinderInfo	      32B
	com.apple.metadata:[COLOR="Red"]com_apple_backup_excludeItem[/COLOR]	      61B
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