Why not examine the folder hierarchy on your backup drive and inspect the individual folder names, which will tell you when each backup set was actually taken. Then at least you will know which end of the process is misbehaving.
> On Mar 5, 2018, at 9:26 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running MacOSX 10.12.6 on a mid-2010 Mac Pro tower. I just upgraded > from Yosemite to Sierra, so that may be related. > > I installed a "new" hard drive and dedicated it to Time Machine. It's only > been running for about a day. I opened the Time Machine app today and, as > usual, there are the tick marks along the right side of the screen that show > when the various backups were performed (when the mouse hovers over a given > tick mark). Ideally the backups are about an hour apart. In my case, there > are pairs of tick marks with the same time listed. That is, the last two > tick marks show exactly the same time, the next two tick marks also show the > exact same time (though an hour earlier), and so on. I don't know if two > backups are being performed each hour, or if the listing is just messed up. > Has anyone seen this? Does anyone know how to fix it? Is there some > preference file somewhere that is messed up? > > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me, > > Gregg > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
