Time Machine not backing up

I'm also having problems with Time Machine. I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but today I overwrote a file accidentally (a file that has been there for days, leaving plenty of time for Time Machine to back it up), and I thought "no problem, I have Time Machine!". Then I went into Time Machine only to find that there was no trace of that file. Actually, it seems as if Time Machine's last backup was 1 month ago. This is very strange as it keeps backing up every hour, it says so, and I can hear the disk spinning and backing up for long periods of time, which makes sense. Everything seems normal, except that the files I accidentally delete are never there when I need them.

 

now i had that problem, all of a sudden it stopped backing up, when i say stopped, i mean it was b/u so it seemed, but the b/u was apparently going nowhere, it told me last b/u was 5 may/ latest b/u ...... i looked a bit closer and turns out that the b/u disc wasn't selected so i selected my b/u disc again, set it to b/u now and everything went back to normal (so far)

i wonder if thats whats happened to both of yours?
personally i dont rate time machine very much, thought apple would have improved its speed and efficiency by now.

 

For those that have noticed Time Machine not backing their stuff up:

1. Have you not restarted the system since the last good backup? I think there is an issue with Time Machine when you have slept the system "too many times".
2. Try restarting your system and edit a file and see if it picks up the changes on the next backup.

 

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