This is labeling issue for time machine, It says it is backing up
each hour the full disk but it really is only backing up the changes
and this takes little disk space, let it run a day and you wont see
24x a whole disk stored away,. Look at the actual avail space before
and after and it did not use large chucks after the first copy over.
Dont add up the memory used per the window listings this is not
correct, look at the disk avail storage and it changes little.
vashaun jones wrote:
Listers I am having a hard time understanding a particular problem
with Time Machine and Super Duper. For Time Machine it appears that
it is making duplicate copies of the same data. For example when I
plugged it in for the second time in life it said it is backing up
19GB of 19GB. I have a total of 155GB allocated for Time Machine and
I already have 40 or so GB gone. It's on the same drive as the first
backup that was done for the first time on yesterday. I only have
19GB on my laptop hard drive so I can't understand why it made a
duplicate. Also it does not automatically start backing up when I
plug in the drive. What setting do I need to change in order for this
to work.
I installed Super Duper and used it for the first time on yesterday
and set it to backup the drive on another partition and had it to
reboot from that drive once it finished. I ejected the drive and
moved the computer to the other room and stuff started to act funny.
I had deleted some items and other things like podcast. When I
plugged it back in and turned the computer on is when everything went
back to normal. The only thing is the data that I deleted was back on
my machine, so I don't know where I messed up. I guess in short I
don't know how to backup using software and need some pointers. I am
use to just copying something to a hard drive. Thanks
