Re: Time Machine duplicates

That's evocative… In Time Machine's folders, there is always an alias (I think it's an alias, not a hard link) to the most recent backup, named something like Most Recent Backup. I wonder if your Time Machine "client" is somehow tripping over this and counting that backup twice. > On Mar 7,

Re: Time Machine duplicates

No, I do not do mobile backups with Time Machine. When I first wrote about this odd behavior, there was an appearance of pairs of "simultaneous" backups through the day, but when I looked more recently, only the latest hourly backup had a duplicate entry. If this does not extend throughout

Re: Time Machine duplicates

On 2018-03-05, at 12:43 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] wrote: > That's a good idea. I just checked and, based on the names of the folders, > there appears to be only one per hour. So, this suggests that the listing > within the Time Machine app is reporting two

Re: Time Machine duplicates

That's a good idea. I just checked and, based on the names of the folders, there appears to be only one per hour. So, this suggests that the listing within the Time Machine app is reporting two backups per hour when in fact only one is being performed (or at least only one is being kept in

Re: Time Machine duplicates

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] >

Time Machine duplicates

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