Always backing up....

every time I plug my touch into itunes 7.7, it does this long back up thing every time. I have the 2.0 firmware and it just seems like a real drag to have to back up everything every time. What gives? Am I doing something wrong?

Up in the iTunes window where it says Backing up.... see the little X? Click it to stop the backup. It seems to be safe to do so. I've been doing it for the last week...though not every time.

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When backing up with Time Machine it always backs up the same amount of data each time (140GB). I am not modifying 140GB of data each day or even each week so why does Time Machine always default to this amount of data?
I would like TM to only backup modified data so that I am not waiting hours for TM to complete backup. Looking for a reset or workaround for this issue.
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My Imac drive just died. Always backed up with Time machine to a WD My Passport. But after connecting it to my other imac (also running Snow Leopard) all the files are missing. I click on backup.backupdb but no files - just applications. Any ideas?

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Welcome to the Communities.
We want to help you but unfortunately you have given us insufficient information.
Please find a moment to tell us more about your machine, the model identifier, the OS version, and the total amount of RAM you have. It also helps to know where you are, nothing specific, just the country. Macs do not run on iOS 6.1.6 as your profile says.
Then fill those same details in your profile for future use
These documents may prove helpful .. Solving Time Machine problems Pondini FAQ
http://pondini.org/TM/ Troubleshooting.html

After installing lion, time machine does not always back up. The back up disk is occasionally not recognized.

after installing lion, time machine does not always back up. The back up disk is occasionally not recognized. Help!

This is easy one.. for most.. just restart the TC.. ie pull out the power.. count to 10.. plug in the power.
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C12 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Always backing up GB not mb ??

My Time Capsule always seem to want to back up about 13-20GB per day ?. . . .I always let it complete these backups but it never seems to ease.
I expected after the initial backup that all the Time Capsule would so would be to back up incremental changs to files etc but it seems to always want to backup a few GB every time . . . .whats wrong with my set up ?
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jay,
Consider the following regarding large incremental backups...
*_Incremental Backups Seem Too Large!_*
Open the Time Machine Prefs on the Mac in question. How much space does it report you have "Available"? When a backup is initiated how much space does it report you need?
Now, consider the following, it might give you some ideas:
Time Machine performs backups at the file level. If a single bit in a large file is changed, the WHOLE file is backed up again. This is a problem for programs that save data to monolithic virtual disk files that are modified frequently. These include Parallels, VMware Fusion, Aperture vaults, or the databases that Entourage and Thunderbird create. These should be excluded from backup using the Time Machine Preference Exclusion list. You will, however, need to backup these files manually to another external disk.
One poster observed regarding Photoshop: “If you find yourself working with large files, you may discover that TM is suddenly backing up your scratch disk's temp files. This is useless, find out how to exclude these (I'm not actually sure here). Alternatively, turn off TM whilst you work in Photoshop.” [http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1209412]
If you do a lot of movie editing, unless these files are excluded, expect Time Machine to treat revised versions of a single movie as entirely new files.
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Time Machine does not compare file for file to see if changes have been made. If it had to rescan every file on your drive before each backup, it would not be able to perform backups as often as it does. Rather, it looks for EVENTS (fseventsd) that take place involving your files and folders. Moving/copying/deleting/saving files and folders creates events that Time Machine looks for. [http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/14]
Installing new software, upgrading existing software, or updating Mac OS X system software can create major changes in the structure of your directories. Every one of these changes is recorded by the OS as an event. Time Machine will backup every file that has an event associated with it since the installation.
Files or folders that are simply moved or renamed are counted as NEW files or folders. If you rename any file or folder, Time Machine will back up the ENTIRE file or folder again no matter how big or small it is.
George Schreyer describes this behavior: “If you should want to do some massive rearrangement of your disk, Time Machine will interpret the rearranged files as new files and back them up again in their new locations. Just renaming a folder will cause this to happen. This is OK if you've got lots of room on your backup disk. Eventually, Time Machine will thin those backups and the space consumed will be recovered. However, if you really want recover the space in the backup volume immediately, you can. To do this, bring a Finder window to the front and then click the Time Machine icon on the dock. This will activate the Time Machine user interface. Navigate back in time to where the old stuff exists and select it. Then pull down the "action" menu (the gear thing) and select "delete all backups" and the older stuff vanishes.” (http://www.girr.org/mac_stuff/backups.html)
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For some reason Time Machine always likes to back up a minimum of 2GB, even with virtually no use of my laptop. I do not think it did this before I got the Time Capsule, but its quite obvious now since the Time Capsule is noticeably slower.
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NEVER delete your "originals" folder and ALWAYS back up--now I need advice!

Don't even ask. Well, actually, I'll just quickly explain. I was following some directions in a recent-ish copy of MacAddict magazine, and I might have deleted some of what is in iphoto's "Originals" folder. I was trying to delete original photos (unturned-around, un-edited etc.) and it turns out that the structure of the 5.0 iphoto library is slightly different from 6.0 library. I started opening photos in my library and getting the grey question-mark screen and freaked out.
Okay. So this is by far the silliest, most stupid thing I ever did. Don't even give me grief, I feel dumb enough as it is.
BUT I do back everything up regularly (I even keep 2 copies of my hard drive backed up every week)! However, I only recently upgraded to 6.0. My most recent back up was useless (it was last night, deleted photos were already gone) but the one from last week is perfect!! I have my entire iphoto folder, pre-deletion, but also pre-6.0 update. So it is all iphoto 5 file structure.
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Lesson-- back up!!

gg:
Do you want to just resurrect your library from last week as your primary library? If so, move to your Pictures library and launch iPhoto. It will open and convert it over to the V6 format. That's all you need to do.
However, if you have pictures in your current library that you don't have in the older backup, then you can do the following:
1 - open you current library and assemble the new photos that are not in the backup into a new roll or album, either will do.
2 - quit iPhoto and rename the current library to anything other than "iPhoto Library".
3 - copy your week old library folder into your Pictures library.
4 - launch iPhoto. It will open the newly arrived backup library and update it to V6.
5 - quit iPhoto.
6 - download and run iPhoto Library Manager, selecting the two libraries you have.
7 - click on the renamed library and select the rolls or albums that are displayed that represent the photos that are not in the week old library (the one named "iPhoto Library".
8 - drag those items onto the other library's icon to copy those files, complete with keywords, etc. into it.
The free version of iPLM will only copy 20 photos at a time so if you have lots more you'll need to get the paid version.
Once the transfer is complete launch iPhoto and check out your primary library. If all is well and there you can delete the renamed library folder. Good luck.
Do you Twango?
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I have recently set up Time Capsule as my Time Machine back up and the first back up, while taking a little while, worked fine.
However every time it backs up it does 20gb of back ups. Using Time Tracker, I found it is the sparseimage on my Users/Shared file that contains my iPhoto library. I have my library set up this way to share among multiple accounts and it is set up to mount for every user as per this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198
When I exclude the sparseimage from Time Machine back ups it goes back to normal small backups. Now I realise any change to a sparseimage will back up the entire image but since I have set up Time Capsule I have not even accessed iPhoto. And of course if its excluded its not being backed up.
I don't think its a Time Capsule issue but I can't recall this happening when I had my USB connected hard drive that I used to use for Time Machine back ups.
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Has anyone experienced this and is it a known bug.
//Jeff

+Possible Solution per Gizmodo+
+1. - Quit iTunes.+
+2. - Open Terminal.app+
+3. - Copy and paste this in, then hit return:+
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+4. - Open iTunes+
+5. - Plug in your iPhone (2.0 or 3G) and sync.+
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+Changing the 'true' in step 3 to 'false' will re-enable the backup feature.+
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I sat the settings at 100%, reboot, remove the package pavucontrol and it's working like a charm now.
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after some time (sometimes 10 days) switches to standard source!
how can I stop to do so???

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Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
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- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
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Time Machine won't back up consistently

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"Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk is not available."
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It seems like Time Machine is forgetting which disk to backup to. If I go into Time Machine prefs and select the disk and re-enter the password, 90% of the time it will work. That doesn't really do me much good though if automated backups are not working as they should.
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