Hi Peter, Everything that Time Machine does is logged to the system log, so it is possible to get more detailed reports on its activities. Open Console in Applications/Utilities To find the activity for Time Machine, you only need to know that the Time Machine process is called backupd. 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 filtered output 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. Kind regards, Ronni > On 10 Jun 2020, at 9:32 am, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, I did a search in the WAMUG archives and couldn't find the thread > which shows how to interrogate the actual backed up content for each hourly > backup for TM. > > Reason I ask is that I am bringing my wifes TM backup up to date as it had > been manually stopped for a short period, then forgotten about (a few > months!!!) and now back in business. So yesterday I set it off again (used > the Ethernet connection as I knew it would be a large backup). She also had > clear out a LOT of photos off her iphone which meant it would be huge. So > yesterday it set off (75GB) and by this morning it was finished. I've been > monitoring it through this morning and I have seen subsequent hourly backups > SINCE completing successfully the 75GB backup and the subsequent hourly > backups have been 745MB and 220MB each. There was zero activity on the MBP > since waking it this morning. > > Why would there be subsequent backups of such size with no specific activity > on the keyboard. Obviously there is something being backed up and I'd like to > investigate. > > How do I do this? > > > > Kind Regards > > > Peter Crisp > > -- 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> 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
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