Hi Peter, To add a little to James & Alan's comments.
1. Time Machine usually needs 2-3 times the size of what it's backing-up (20%? Workspace). I certainly would not be doing a first time backup of the iMovie files while using the computer. Before you attempt another backup of the iMovie files, check Console Logs to see entries for Time Machine 'backupd'. A) Open Console, in Applications/Utilities, and if you don’t see a two-column window showing log files in the left-hand panel, then click the Show Log List button in the toolbar. B) Select the All Messages entry in the left-hand column. C) To find the activity for Time Machine, you only need to know that the Time Machine process is called backupd. D) Click in the search box at the top right of the window (or just press Command-Option-F), then type backupd. As you type, Console will filter the results to only show those entries related to the backupd process. The results are shown in three columns, and it’s the Message column that’s most useful. The messages reveal how much data was backed up, what older backups were removed, and other general information about the backup run. Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2010, at 9:19 AM, Crisp, Peter 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 36GB. > > 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 importing of ‘only’ 36GB > into iMovie resulted in the need for the Macbook to decide the backup needed > was 116GB! It had repeatedly failed through the day yesterday to complete the > backup successfully. I thought it new best so off it went again around 5:30 > yesterday evening – this time with me looking over it with the Time Machine > window open showing the progress bar. By 9PM it had reached around 50GB > through 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 the 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 fail 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 break out of? > > Macbook 13” – 3 months old (Snow Leopard) > Time Capsule – 1TB > > Thanks for any useful tips you may have. > > Regards > > Peter…… -- 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]>
