This doesn't sound right? How are you connected to the time capsule?
If you are on wireless, I suggest getting a network cable and do a
over the wire backup. It should run much faster. My guess is that it
is taking multiple backups of each of the iMovie clips. In my case
iMovie splits the imports into multiple clips.
Sent from my iPhone
On 9 Mar 2010, at 01:19, "Crisp, Peter" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi folks, last week I raised about importing AVCHD video files from
a Camcorder to my Macbook (10.6) and with some expert in person
tuition from my father and reading some macrumours threads on the
topic specific to my camcorder model, I was able to get it to
recognise the camcorder and in turn import the whole 276 individual
clips starting from back in 2008 when I first got the camcorder.
Approx 5 hours of ‘film’ time. It ran overnight to import it all
and successfully finished. The memory size of all this was around 36
GB.
Now that I am successfully over this hurdle, the resultant ‘need’
for the Time Capsule to back it all up results in a huge back-up job
which I had expected. What I couldn’t understand was why the import
ing of ‘only’ 36GB into iMovie resulted in the need for the
Macbook to decide the backup needed was 116GB! It had repeatedly fai
led through the day yesterday to complete the backup successfully. I
thought it new best so off it went again around 5:30 yesterday even
ing – this time with me looking over it with the Time Machine window
open showing the progress bar. By 9PM it had reached around 50GB th
rough the backup and shortly after this I noticed it had appeared to
have finished – but in fact it hadn’t. Shortly after all this,
the backup started all over again – right from zero having debited t
he space remaining on the Time Capsule by the 50GB from what it was
4 hours earlier! The only other program running was Mail.
This morning again – it had just commenced yet another 116GB backup
from about the 8MB point when I noted it. I have no doubt it will fa
il again.
I fear that it will take many attempts before it will successfully
complete the 116GB backup that it dearly wants to do for me.
Questions I have are this.
Why would importing 36GB of iMovie files result in 116GB with
no other significant traffic having occurred?
How long should a 116GB back up really take?
Maybe I should inhibit any further backups till an overnight
operation when there is no other potential interruption to it – even
though Time Machine should seamlessly work in the background 24/7?
Is it possible that the cycle for a monthly backup coincidentally
occurred at the same time as my 36GB import resulting in such an
extra large Backup needed?
What can I do here – it seems to be in a loop very difficult to brea
k out of?
Macbook 13” – 3 months old (Snow Leopard)
Time Capsule – 1TB
Thanks for any useful tips you may have.
Regards
Peter……
Kind Regards,
Peter Crisp, Associate, BE Mech
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