Did you repartition your drive? If so, you may have shuffled 96GB of files around, meaning TM may have thought they'd changed and backed them up accordingly.
-- Jared Earle :: iPhone-at-23x-dot-net http://jearle.eu/ :: http://blog.23x.net On 14 Dec 2008, at 17:20, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2008, at 5:30 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote: > >> >> On Dec 13, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: >> >>> I'm not clear about Time Machine and BootCamp - >>> >>> after installing Bootcamp (49Gig partition) .. >>> Vista .. and Fusion ... >>> all of a sudden, Time Machine is backing up 96 GIG ! >>> >>> I've tried to exclude at least the VMWare Fusion folder - Virtual >>> Machines -> BootCamp .. >>> but that's only 22 MB (someone suggested doing this in a forum) >>> >>> When I see Bootcamp mounted in the Finder, it doesn't appear as a >>> device or folder that I can exclude in the Time Machine OPTIONS >>> interface, and if I try >>> to drag the partition into the Options panel, it doesn't take >>> >>> is there a easy way (that i'm obviously missing) to exclude >>> Bootcamp, Vista, Fusion? from being backed up ? >> >> Time machine won't back up the boot camp partition. There are >> solutions out there that will back up your boot camp partition to >> your >> time machine drive but that is not the default. > > I'm having a hard time understanding why all of a sudden, shortly > after installing Bootcamp and Vista and Fusion, I had **** 96 GIG **** > being backed up by Time Machine .. > > I hadn't used my Dual for a couple of days other than checking email - > so I can't fathom what that data is if it's not BootCamp/Vista/Fusion > > > >> >> >> >> -- >> The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a >> proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and >> oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. >> -Paul Valery, poet and philosopher (1871-1945) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] >> http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters >> List hosted at http://cat5.org/ > > > http://www.kevincallahan.org/ > http://www.kevincallahan.org/software/accessorizer.html > http://www.xeniamara.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] > http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters > List hosted at http://cat5.org/ _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
