Hi Peter, Unfortunately I’ll have to leave this post for someone else to help as I’m coping with a death in my family (My dear sister in Melbourne died this morning). —— By default, Time Machine does not back up external drives, but you can change this.
You can ensure that external drives are backed up by following these steps: Open the Time Machine system preference pane. Click the Options button. Select any drive in the exclusion list that you want to have Time Machine include. Click the - (minus) button to remove it. (Repeat for additional drives.) Click Save. That’s all you have to do. The exclusions list is confusing, because you might want to only include certain parts of an external drive. There’s no built-in way to make this happen. Say you wanted to back up a Movies folder on an external drive, but none of the five other top-level folders. You need to add each of those other top-level folders in the Exclude list by clicking the + sign and then selecting them one at a time. https://www.macworld.com/article/3153995/macs/how-to-make-sure-time-machine-backs-up-external-drives.html Kind regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 10 Feb 2019, at 2:40 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ronnie, this is a good little app. It takes the app a little while to > retrieve the detail for each backup but eventually I was able to see what had > happened very clearly. The large backup had included the new library (~2GB) > and the old library as well (~400GB) plus a mobile synch back up as well. The > backup of the old library as I suspected was in there but is a complete waste > of space, there was nothing in it which changed (at least by me). > > Having now confirmed this, is there a way to delete this recent Photos > library backup and hence release the space? > > I did note also that the TimeTracker only looks into the TC internal hard > disc backups and not the additional hard drives plugged into the TC USB port > for extra backup space. Is this a default setting and is there a way to look > into the other drives containing backups? > > Regards > > > Pete > >> On 10 Feb 2019, at 12:54 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> TimeTracker 0.6.2 - 04 Dec 2018 >> >> Version 0.6.2 released Dec 04, 2018 >> >> Version : >> Add workaround for Mojave issue resulting in permissions errors when >> accessing the Time Machine preferences >> Remove some erroneous captions on the toolbar buttons >> Now notarized by Apple for Mojave >> >> <https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36691/timetracker/version-history> >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) >> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz >> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM >> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >> >> macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 >> >> >>> On 10 Feb 2019, at 12:24 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Ronni, thanks for asking this one and sorry I wasn’t a little clearer. >>> The two Photos libraries are on a 1TB external drive attached to the MBP >>> USB port. The two libraries are the only two files on the external drive >>> (formatted OSX Extend Journaled). The TM Options panel is set to include >>> the external drive in the backup of Jo’s MBP. >>> >>> The Time Machine Backup of Jo’s MBP is located on the Time Capsule (with >>> 3TB internal drive) - so not sharing location with the Photos library. >>> >>> For many years this has worked faultlessly with the single library on the >>> external drive, all I have done is created a new Photos library alongside >>> the existing Jo’s Photos library. >>> >>> It’s a puzzle. I do remember many years ago you let the group know of an >>> app or program that allowed one to look into the contents of previous >>> backups. If you’re able to remind me of this program, I can look into it >>> directly and find out what the contents of that back up last night were. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> Pete >>> >>>> On 10 Feb 2019, at 11:43 am, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello Peter, >>>> >>>> I’m not sure if I understand your Time Machine Backup of these two Photos >>>> Library’s? >>>> >>>> WARNING: If a Photos library is located on an external drive, don’t use >>>> Time Machine to store a backup on that external drive. >>>> The permissions for your Photos library may conflict with those for the >>>> Time Machine backup. >>>> >>>> <https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/photos/back-up-the-photos-library-pht6d60d10f/mac> >>>> >>>> <https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201517> >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Ronni >>>> >>>> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) >>>> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz >>>> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM >>>> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >>>> >>>> macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 >>>> >>>>> On 10 Feb 2019, at 10:47 am, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> HI, during Saturday i was consolidating the photos back up for my mother >>>>> in law (she has no computer) using my wife’s MacBook Pro. My wife has her >>>>> Photos library on an exclusive Photos only external 1TB drive. So I >>>>> created a second library “Carol” on the external drive to import photos >>>>> for my mother in law alongside the existing System library (420GB) for >>>>> Jo. This import all went very successfully but the next time a TM backup >>>>> came around, as expected it recognised the new library (~4GB) but the >>>>> backup was ~460GB in size. Given that the original library was unchanged >>>>> and nothing in particular was changed on the main SSD, why would TM >>>>> decide the entire external drive plus other material it seems, needed >>>>> backing up again. I connected it to the Ethernet to speed this process >>>>> which finished during the night but I am puzzled why TM decided to >>>>> apparently update such a large quantity of data. My TC 3TB drive is now >>>>> down to 1.2TB remaining which is still plenty, but has copped 455GB it >>>>> didn’t need to and reduced my balance unnecessarily. >>>>> >>>>> Any clues why this would happen and how can I undo this other than >>>>> blowing away the whole backup file and redoing a full new backup? >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Pete >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> -- 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> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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