Thanks Sam The backup finally completed in one week and 23 hours. I was so glad to be able to turn the computer off that I haven’t looked into Time Machine yet to see if it actually works! At least I have something that might be used to recapture all my files if the iMac crashes some day. I had some reassurance from a WD operative over the phone and I just let the TM run until it completed.
Phil > On 8 Dec 2014, at 09:47, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Phil > > Do you use either Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion or Entourage 2004/2008? > Any program which creates a very large single file can cause huge backups > with Time Machine as the file’s modification date is regularly updated even > after a small change, meaning Time Machine ends up backing it up multiple > times (sometimes hourly). > > Regards > > Sam > > <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> > <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> > <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen ACMT > +44 (0)7747778022 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > >> On 8 Dec 2014, at 09:45, Phil Tomlinson <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I seem to have a backup underway that is never going to complete. >> After many problems backing up to a WD My Book I thought I had at last fixed >> things by using Disk Utility. (Thanks Sam for your advice - quite a while >> ago now) However, the backup has now lasted for a week. >> The most worrying feature is that the size of data on my IMac is increasing >> as the size of backup increases. E.g. It started off backing up 28.90 GB of >> 221.71 GB, now it’s backed up 636 GB, but of 411.96 GB. >> Is this some catastrophic weird loop effect? Will it ever complete? >> >> Phil >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug >> <http://groups.google.com/group/smug>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug > <http://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
