Hi, A month or two ago, I wrote to ask about TimeMachine because the hourly backups were taking about 45 minutes, so TM seemed like it was almost always running. I ended up swapping out the internal hard drive that I was using for TM backups and that seemed to fix the problem. Well, at least the backups did not take nearly so long. After the drive swap, the backups were taking about 12 minutes, though I think that number crept up a bit over the last month or two. Since 12 minutes seemed much better than 45 minutes, I assumed that all was working correctly.
For the past few days, I have been watching the console messages (for "backupd") and it appears that the backups are now taking less than a minute! I know it must seem like I'm never happy, but now I'm worrying that my files are not being properly backed up. As a test, however, I retrieved a file that I know I changed yesterday -- I restored a version a few hours before I changed it and another version a few hours after I changed it, and all seemed OK (the former did not have the change and the latter did). I purposely do not backup many of my directories, so very little changes from day to day, and maybe this short backup time is to be expected. That would be great. Here is my question. If hardly any user files change since the last backup, and if all but about 50-gb of my system drive is excluded, how long should the entire "backup" process take? If no user files changed, or very few, then the backup of my data should not take long, but I'm sure some system files are always changing, and I have no idea how long the search for changed files might take. Which seems more reasonable -- 1 minute or 12 minutes? Even if the 1 minute time period is correct, I have no idea why (or when) the backups went from taking 12 minutes to only taking 1 minute. Thanks, Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
