Thanks for the suggestion. I will try this when I get home. I tried this at work, just to see what it looked like. I was surprised to see that it claimed to backup 43,000 files, though it only took 2-MB of space. That's an order of magnitude more than the 4,500 files in your output. Also, it took about 8 minutes, which is better than the 20-30 minutes it takes at home, but less than the 2 minutes that your backup took.
Thanks, Gregg On 8 Mar 2012, at 3:13 AM, LuKreme wrote: > On 07 Mar 2012, at 21:08 , Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: >> I am not knowingly running any databases. Is there an easy way to tell? > > I think you need to open up console and in the search field type 'backupd' > > You should see blocks like this about every hour: > > 07-Mar-12 11:06:23.090 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup > 07-Mar-12 11:06:23.248 PM com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: > /Volumes/Tardis/Backups.backupdb > 07-Mar-12 11:07:20.868 PM com.apple.backupd: 10.17 GB required (including > padding), 240.40 GB available > 07-Mar-12 11:08:16.084 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 4497 files (291.4 MB) > from volume Usain. > 07-Mar-12 11:08:17.869 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 4531 files (291.4 MB) > from volume Mufasa. > 07-Mar-12 11:08:19.000 PM com.apple.backupd: 9.83 GB required (including > padding), 240.10 GB available > 07-Mar-12 11:08:27.830 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 2178 files (423 KB) from > volume Usain. > 07-Mar-12 11:08:29.272 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 2212 files (423 KB) from > volume Mufasa. > 07-Mar-12 11:08:33.488 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning > 07-Mar-12 11:08:45.430 PM com.apple.backupd: Deleted > /Volumes/Tardis/Backups.backupdb/cerebus (3)/2012-03-06-220932 (203.4 MB) > 07-Mar-12 11:08:45.430 PM com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: > 1 expired backups removed > 07-Mar-12 11:08:45.658 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully. > > You will, if you look at this, notice two things. One, the backup took 2m21s; > two, despite requiring 10.17GB the backup actually only backed up 291.4MB > from two drives. (I forgot to exclude my old boot drive). 291.4MB is probably > just the spotlight index. > >> How much of my system drive should I exclude from TimeMachine? I certainly >> want to backup my home directory, but should I exclude /Applications, >> /Developer, /Library, or /System? > > /Developer? Probably. It's pretty straightforward to just reinstall it if you > have to restore your computer. Depends on if you store anything in there or > not. I don't, so I don't back it up. > > As for /System and /Library it depends. If your machine dies and you have to > replace it, are you going to want to restore your system just the way it was, > or do you want to leave the new system as it is and just restore 'your > stuff'? If the latter, then exclude /System and /Library. > > However, be aware that files in there change rarely, so once it is backed up, > it's pretty much done with them. > > As for /Applications… I think it's easier to back it up and restore it, but > some apps (like anything from Adobe) will not work, so it may or may not be > useful to you. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
