Hi Peter James's suggestion to localise the potential trouble is good. But I recommend that you totally exclude movies from Time Machine backup. Make a manual backup of movies some other way. TM will backup entire files each time. If you are editing a movie clip, then each resultant edited clip is a new file. By the end of a days work you can have 100 Gigs of just a few small clips.
Alan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Devenish Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 10:43 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Time Capsule backups Hi Peter, Can I suggest that you go into your System Preferences, then Time Machine, Options... and click on the Plus sign to select your movies folder to exclude it from backups (you can also check the size of the movies folder in the Finder). Then, ask your machine to "Back Up Now". Check that the required size goes back to a reasonable level (if it doesn't, there must be something else going on). This backup will at least ensure that your normal files are safe. Once a reasonable backup has occurred and you have some time for an uninterrupted backup, go back into your Time Machine preferences and remove your movies from the exclusion list and "Back Up Now". James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2729 - Release Date: 03/09/10 03:33:00 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
