Backup size too large??

I have been using an external drive for my TM backup for a long time.
Recently I did a reinstall of Snow Leopard on my iMac, then the problem arises.
TM gives the warning of too large backups and not enough disk space in my external drive.
I have tried to erase my TM drive but the problem still exists.
I can see from the TM preferences->option that the "Estimated backup size" is 644 GB
and my TM external drive has 750GB empty space, but the warning msg said I need 775GB of empty space on the ext.
How could it be?? I just have around 600GB of used space on my internal drive to backup!
Can somebody help??

Your backup drive is too small.
It varies greatly, depending on how you use your Mac, but Time Machine usually needs 2-3 times the space of the data it's backing-up to keep a few months of backups for you.
The immediate problem is, Time Machine adds about 20% to the estimated size of the backup, for workspace, as mentioned in the message.
Short term, you can "squeeze" your backups onto that drive by temporarily excluding some large items, per #10 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum). Then remove the exclusions, and run another backup. Since the 20% will be added to a much smaller backup, it should fit.
Longer term, you need a much larger disk, preferably 1.5 TB or larger.

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  • Time Machine - This backup is too large (incorrect sizes)

    Good morning.
    I'll start by saying that I've searched for an answer to this problem in these discussion forums and elsewhere on the internet.  I haven't found this exact problem anywhere.  So I apologize if this has been posted and answered already and I'd appreciate just a quick link to the solution if it's out there.  So, with that said...
    Got a Time Machine question I wonder if some of you folks might be able to help me out with.  Here's the deal: I've got two internal hard drives, one 2.0TB and one 240GB (SSD, which I'm using for my boot/application disk).  I back them up to the same external Time Machine drive, a 2.0TB Western Digital.  I've been backing up both drives without a major problem for about six months (aside from an occasional "ran out of space unexpectedly" error, which I was able to fix with help from Pondini and his awesome Time Machine troubleshooting guide).
    In addition to my main backup, I also have a separate 2.0TB Seagate that I keep offsite and bring in to update it every month or so.  I'd just finished running my monthly update to that drive and switched back over to the WD drive.  It refused to pick up where it had left off, which it does sometimes.  So I sighed and reformatted the drive using Disk Utility to the usual Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format.  I'm ok with having to start the backup from scratch if need be since I've got a redundant drive.  Unfortunately this time things didn't go quite so smoothly.
    When I went to do the first new backup to the newly formatted WD drive, it sat and spun for about a minute then gave me the following message:
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    Okay, now you know as well as I do that no drive ever reports an exact 2.00TB of space available (on a 2TB drive).  After a fresh reformat, my WD typically reports about 1.92TB of available space.  And the maximum size of the backup (which, again, had been working just fine up until the swap back to the WD drive) would be in the neighborhood of 1.7TB (1.5TB on the internal 2TB and 190GB on the 240GB SSD).  At the most.
    I tried everything I could think of, including every suggestion I could find on Pondini's site.  I re-reformatted, verified all disks involved, repaired permissions, chucked the TM preferences file, even ran some intensive scans on the backup WD using Drive Genius.  Every test I ran came back and said the disk was perfectly fine.
    So... for the moment I'm running temporary backups using Carbon Copy Cloner, which is definitely doing the job, but if possible I really would like to get Time Machine running on this drive again.  I haven't ruled out the possibility that the drive may just need replacing (since it's... 3 and a half years old, I think?).  But if there's anything that I may have missed that may get me up and running again, I'd really appreciate the insight.
    Thanks for taking the time to consider my problem.  Let me know if there's any further details about my system that may help track this issue down.

    LightningChaser wrote:
    Good morning.
    snip
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    I would make this temporary situation part of a permenant plan that excludes TM from any critical duties.
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  • This backup is too large for the backup volume - ridiculous Size!!!

    Hi .. i own a macbook 13" aluminium, I have Snow Leopard 10.6.2 , and i change my internal hard drive to a 500Gb.
    I bought 1Tb Western Digital My Book USB External Drive to use it for back ups using Time machine.. at the beginning worked great, when i changed my hard drive i restore everything in lest than 2 hours.
    Then one time, it said that the hard drive where going out of space, and i said to delete the oldest backups, it erase everything and kept the last back up. Since then, it came a message
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    its ridiculous, when i go to the time machine preference, it said that the full size back up it would take 83Gb only.
    I tried everything, formatting the unit, taking out the partition , and making it out again, it makes the first full back up, but then the same message...
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    Thanks Again
    Daniel

    DanielFaour wrote:
    *_+This backup is too large for the backup volume. The backup requires 2.73EB but only 995 Gb are available.*+_
    Hi, and welcome to the forums.
    That message seems to indicate that something is corrupted on your internal HD. Do a +*Verify Disk+* on it, per #A5 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
    If that finds errors, you'll have to use the procedure in the yellow box there to Repair them.
    If that does not find errors, Restart your Mac and do a "full reset" of Time Machine, per #A4 there.
    I tried everything, formatting the unit, taking out the partition , and making it out again, it makes the first full back up, but then the same message...
    What partition? Are there multiple partitions on your TM drive? How large is the one for Time Machine? Check the setup per #C1 of the Troubleshooting Tip.

  • This backup is too large for the backup volume - ridiculous backup size

    I have had big problems with Time Machine today. I have been successfully using it for 2 months now. I have about 30Gb spare on my iMac hard drive (out of 233Gb) and my Time Machine uses 195Gb out of 466Gb available.
    However, today I have lost all my Time Machine history except for one backup made this morning, and I am now getting an error message saying:
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    This backup is too large for the backup volume. The backup requires 161061280.0 GB but only 270.4 GB are available.
    To select a larger volume, or make backup smaller by excluding files, open System Preferences and choose Time Machine"
    Clearly the required backup volume is wrong - that's 161,000.0TB!!!
    The same message has come up 3 times now.
    Can anyone help/advise on what to do next?

    Thanks Peggy,
    I re-indexed Spotlight and ran Time Machine again, but got exactly the same error message and the same massive storage required.
    I've opened Console as you suggested and these are a set of the messages from one back-up attempt yesterday (Console doesn' show anything earlier than 17.32 yesterday - but the problem started earlier than that I believe):
    "16/01/2008 17:32:52 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Backup requested by automatic scheduler
    16/01/2008 17:32:52 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Starting standard backup
    16/01/2008 17:32:52 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
    16/01/2008 17:32:53 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Event store UUIDs don't match for volume iMac Hard Drive
    16/01/2008 17:32:53 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|
    16/01/2008 17:44:48 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Starting pre-backup thinning: 157286.40 TB requested (including padding), 270.35 GB available
    16/01/2008 17:44:48 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
    16/01/2008 17:44:48 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
    16/01/2008 17:44:48 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Backup Failed: unable to free 157286.40 TB needed space
    16/01/2008 17:44:49 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume."

  • Backup is too large - Impossible!

    I've used Time Machine to backup my entire hard drive many times in the past, but when I attempted to backup today (for the first time in a while) I just kept getting the same error message "This backup is too large for the backup volume".
    I have a small hard drive - 150GB - and the space I've reserved for this backup, on a partitioned external hard drive, is 162.34 GB. The Time Machine error message claims the backup requires 171.4 GB! Where is the extra 21GB coming from?
    I've excluded the usual things in Time Machine preferences but this makes no difference.
    Please look at the following screen grab:
    http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/7122/timecapsulegrab.png
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    Time Machine adds 20% to the estimated size of each backup, for temporary workspace on the destination.
    You are not using Time Machine in the way it's designed; it keeps copies of things you've changed or deleted so requires more space than the data it's backing-up. How much varies widely, of course, depending on how you use your Mac, but a rule of thumb is, it needs 2-3 times the space of the data it's backing-up, so it can keep a reasonable "depth" of backups. It's just not going to work without much more space.
    If all you want is to back up the current contents, you'll be much better off making a "bootable clone." [CarbonCopyCloner|http://www.bombich.com> is donationware; [SuperDuper|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html] has a free version, but you need the paid one (about $30) to do updates instead of full replacements, or scheduling.
    And/or, see Kappy's post on Basic Backup.

  • Error: "This backup is too large for the backup volume."

    Well TM is acting up. I get an error that reads:
    "This backup is too large for the backup volume."
    Both the internal boot disk and the external baclup drive are 1TB. The internal one has a two partitions, the OSX one that is 900GBs and a 32GB NTFS one for Boot Camp.
    The external drive is a single OSX Extended part. that is 932GBs.
    Both the Time Machine disk, and the Boot Camp disk are excluded from the backup along with a "Crap" folder for temporary large files as well as the EyeTV temp folder.
    Time Machine says it needs 938GBs to backup only the OSX disk, which has 806GBs in use with the rest free. WTFFF? The TM pane says that "only" 782GBs are going to be backed up. Where did the 938GBs figure come from?
    This happened after moving a large folder (128GB in total) from the root of the OSX disk over to my Home Folder.
    I have reformated the Time Machine drive and have no backups at all of my data and it refuses to backup!!
    Why would it need 938GBs of space to backup if the disk has "only" 806 GBs in use??? Is there anyway to reset Time Machine completely???
    Some screenshots:
    http://www.xcapepr.com/images/tm2.png
    http://www.xcapepr.com/images/tm1.png
    http://www.xcapepr.com/images/tm4.png

    xcapepr wrote:
    Time Machine says it needs 938GBs to backup only the OSX disk, which has 806GBs in use with the rest free. WTFFF? The TM pane says that "only" 782GBs are going to be backed up. Where did the 938GBs figure come from?
    Why would it need 938GBs of space to backup if the disk has "only" 806 GBs in use??? Is there anyway to reset Time Machine completely???
    TM makes an initial "estimate" of how much space it needs, "including padding", that is often quite high. Why that is, and Just exactly what it means by "padding" are rather mysterious. But it does also need work space on any drive, including your TM drive.
    But beyond that, your TM disk really is too small for what you're backing-up. The general "rule of thumb" is it should be 2-3 times the size of what it's backing-up, but it really depends on how you use your Mac. If you frequently update lots of large files, even 3 times may not be enough. If you're a light user, you might get by with 1.5 times. But that's about the lower limit.
    Note that although it does skip a few system caches, work files, etc., by default it backs up everything else, and does not do any compression.
    All this is because TM is designed to manage it's backups and space for you. Once it's initial, full backup is done, it will by default then back-up any changes hourly. It only keeps those hourly backups for 24 hours, but converts the first of the day to a "daily" backup, which it keeps for a month. After a month, it converts one per week into a "weekly" backup that it will keep for as long as it has room
    What you're up against is, room for those 30 dailies and up to 24 hourlies.
    You might be able to get it to work, sort of, temporarily, by excluding something large, like your home folder, until that first full backup completes, then remove the exclusion for the next run. But pretty soon, it will begin to fail again, and you'll have to delete backups manually (from the TM interface, not via the Finder).
    Longer term, you need a bigger disk; or exclude some large items (back-them up to a portable external or even DVD/RWs first); or a different strategy.
    You might want to investigate CarbonCopyCloner, SuperDuper!, and other apps that can be used to make bootable "clones". Their advantage, beyond needing less room, is when your HD fails, you can immediately boot and run from the clone, rather than waiting to restore from TM to your repaired or replaced HD.
    Their disadvantages are, you don't have the previous versions of changed or deleted files, and because of the way they work, their "incremental" backups of changed items take much longer and far more CPU.
    Many of us use both a "clone" (I use CCC) and TM. On my small (roughly 30 gb) system, the difference is dramatic: I rarely notice TM's hourly backups -- they usually run under 30 seconds; CCC takes at least 15 minutes and most of my CPU.

  • "Backup is too large for the backup volume" error

    I've been backing up with TM for a while now, and finally it seems as though the hard drive is full, since I'm down to 4.2GB available of 114.4GB.
    Whenever TM tries to do a backup, it gives me the error "This backup is too large for the backup volume. The backup requires 10.8 GB but only 4.2GB are available. To select a larger volume, or make the backup smaller by excluding files, open System Preferences and choose Time Machine."
    I understand that I have those two options, but why can't TM just erase the oldest backup and use that free space to make the new backup? I know a 120GB drive is pretty small, but if I have to just keep accumulating backups infinitely, I'm afraid I'll end up with 10 years of backups and a 890-zettabyte drive taking up my garage. I'm hoping there's a more practical solution.

    John,
    Please review the following article as it might explain what you are encountering.
    *_“This Backup is Too Large for the Backup Volume”_*
    First, much depends on the size of your Mac’s internal hard disk, the quantity of data it contains, and the size of the hard disk designated for Time Machine backups. It is recommended that any hard disk designated for Time Machine backups be +at least+ twice as large as the hard disk it is backing up from. You see, the more space it has to grow, the greater the history it can preserve.
    *Disk Management*
    Time Machine is designed to use the space it is given as economically as possible. When backups reach the limit of expansion, Time Machine will begin to delete old backups to make way for newer data. The less space you provide for backups the sooner older data will be discarded. [http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15137.html]
    However, Time Machine will only delete what it considers “expired”. Within the Console Logs this process is referred to as “thinning”. It appears that many of these “expired” backups are deleted when hourly backups are consolidated into daily backups and daily backups are consolidated into weekly backups. This consolidation takes place once hourly backups reach 24 hours old and daily backups reach about 30 days old. Weekly backups will only be deleted, or ‘thinned’, once the backup drive nears full capacity.
    One thing seems for sure, though; If a new incremental backup happens to be larger than what Time Machine currently considers “expired” then you will get the message “This backup is too large for the backup volume.” In other words, Time Machine believes it would have to sacrifice to much to accommodate the latest incremental backup. This is probably why Time Machine always overestimates incremental backups by 2 to 10 times the actual size of the data currently being backed up. Within the Console logs this is referred to as “padding”. This is so that backup files never actually reach the physically limits of the backup disk itself.
    *Recovering Backup Space*
    If you have discovered that large unwanted files have been backed up, you can use the Time Machine “time travel” interface to recovered some of that space. Do NOT, however, delete files from a Time Machine backup disk by manually mounting the disk and dragging files to the trash. You can damage or destroy your original backups by this means.
    Additionally, deleting files you no longer wish to keep on your Mac does not immediately remove such files from Time Machine backups. Once data has been removed from your Macs' hard disk it will remain in backups for some time until Time Machine determines that it has "expired". That's one of its’ benefits - it retains data you may have unintentionally deleted. But eventually that data is expunged. If, however, you need to remove backed up files immediately, do this:
    Launch Time Machine from the Dock icon.
    Initially, you are presented with a window labeled “Today (Now)”. This window represents the state of your Mac as it exists now. +DO NOT+ delete or make changes to files while you see “Today (Now)” at the bottom of the screen. Otherwise, you will be deleting files that exist "today" - not yesterday or last week.
    Click on the window just behind “Today (Now)”. This represents the last successful backup and should display the date and time of this backup at the bottom of the screen.
    Now, navigate to where the unwanted file resides. If it has been some time since you deleted the file from your Mac, you may need to go farther back in time to see the unwanted file. In that case, use the time scale on the right to choose a date prior to when you actually deleted the file from your Mac.
    Highlight the file and click the Actions menu (Gear icon) from the toolbar.
    Select “Delete all backups of <this file>”.
    *Full Backup After Restore*
    If you are running out of disk space sooner than expected it may be that Time Machine is ignoring previous backups and is trying to perform another full backup of your system? This will happen if you have reinstalled the System Software (Mac OS), or replaced your computer with a new one, or hard significant repair work done on your exisitng Mac. Time Machine will perform a new full backup. This is normal. [http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338]
    You have several options if Time Machine is unable to perform the new full backup:
    A. Delete the old backups, and let Time Machine begin a fresh.
    B. Attach another external hard disk and begin backups there, while keeping this current hard disk. After you are satisfied with the new backup set, you can later reformat the old hard disk and use it for other storage.
    C. Ctrl-Click the Time Machine Dock icon and select "Browse Other Time Machine disks...". Then select the old backup set. Navigate to files/folders you don't really need backups of and go up to the Action menu ("Gear" icon) and select "Delete all backups of this file." If you delete enough useless stuff, you may be able to free up enough space for the new backup to take place. However, this method is not assured as it may not free up enough "contiguous space" for the new backup to take place.
    *Outgrown Your Backup Disk?*
    On the other hand, your computers drive contents may very well have outgrown the capacity of the Time Machine backup disk. It may be time to purchase a larger capacity hard drive for Time Machine backups. Alternatively, you can begin using the Time Machine Preferences exclusion list to prevent Time Machine from backing up unneeded files/folders.
    Consider as well: Do you really need ALL that data on your primary hard disk? It sounds like you might need to Archive to a different hard disk anything that's is not of immediate importance. You see, Time Machine is not designed for archiving purposes, just as a backup of your local drive(s). In the event of disaster, it can get your system back to its' current state without having to reinstall everything. But if you need LONG TERM storage, then you need another drive that is removed from your normal everyday working environment.
    This KB article discusses this scenario with some suggestions including Archiving the old backups and starting fresh [http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15137.html]
    Let us know if this clarifies things.
    Cheers!

  • This backup is too large for the backup disk

    I have a 1TB time capsule used to backup two MacBooks. One backup file is 817GB (MacBook 1) and the other one is 137GB (MacBook 2).
    I get an error message when running the backup on MacBook 2. It says "Time Machine could not complete the backup. This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 55.64GB but only 42.98GB are available"
    I always though the TimeCapsule would automatically remove older backupos to make space and you would never run into such an issue.
    Please not that my MacBook 1 was stolen a while ago so I do not know how to reduce the size of the larger backup.

    Karl R. wrote:
    I always though the TimeCapsule would automatically remove older backupos to make space and you would never run into such an issue.
    Usually that's true, but not always. One exception is, Time Machine will delete the oldest backups of the Mac it's running on, but not any other Mac's backups. That's probably what you've run up against here.
    Please not that my MacBook 1 was stolen a while ago so I do not know how to reduce the size of the larger backup.
    First, connect to the TC via Ethernet.
    If you want to delete all the backups from MacBook 1, double-click your Time Capsule via the Finder, then you should see two +sparse bundles,+ one for each Mac. Delete the one for the old Mac. That will take a long time, even via Ethernet. If it's taking extremely long, see the blue box in #Q5 of [Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/TimeCapsule.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
    Or, you can delete individual backups of the other Mac. To see them, you'll need the +*Browse Other Time Machine Disks+* option, per #17 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum). To delete individual backups, see #12 in the FAQ, and don't miss the pink box there.
    Message was edited by: Pondini

  • Time Machine backs up one MacBook, but "backup is too large" for second

    We have two MacBooks running OS 10.5.8 and both are connected wirelessly to Time Capsule. My daughter's laptop backs up fine. But my wife's laptop fails. It backed up one time when I first installed it, but never since. The error message I get is that the backup is too large for the backup volume -- 71.8 GB required but only 7.4 GB available.
    My daughter's machine has a lot of photos and iTunes files on it, so it shows 141 out of 150 GBs are used up. The Time Capsule, which I understood to have 1 TB actually shows only 7.4 GB out of 463 GB are available.
    And actually, when I try to manually run Time Machine on my wife's machine I get the really long Preparing message, and then the Time Machine Error message about not enough volume.
    Should a machine with 150 GB capacity really be taking so much space on Time Capsule, and why the difference between the 1 TB advertised capacity and the <500GB of memory that actually appears to be there?
    Does any of this suggest I need to restore the external or internal drives?

    Steve Hasler wrote:
    We have two MacBooks running OS 10.5.8 and both are connected wirelessly to Time Capsule. My daughter's laptop backs up fine. But my wife's laptop fails. It backed up one time when I first installed it, but never since. The error message I get is that the backup is too large for the backup volume -- 71.8 GB required but only 7.4 GB available.
    Does it make sense that it's trying to back up about 60 GB (Time Machine adds 20% for temporary workspace) from that Mac?
    If so, see if it has the +Warn when old backups are deleted+ box checked in Time Machine Preferences > Options.
    Click the Time Capsule in a Finder sidebar. If the Finder is in +Column View,+ you should see something like this:
    |
    except there should be two +sparse bundles+ listed in the third column. Right-click each one in turn, select +Get Info,+ and see what's shown for Size. Report back with the numbers. Also tell us if you have any other data on your TC, besides the 2 Mac's backups.
    My daughter's machine has a lot of photos and iTunes files on it, so it shows 141 out of 150 GBs are used up. The Time Capsule, which I understood to have 1 TB actually shows only 7.4 GB out of 463 GB are available.
    And actually, when I try to manually run Time Machine on my wife's machine I get the really long Preparing message, and then the Time Machine Error message about not enough volume.
    That sounds like it's doing a "deep traversal," perhaps after a long time since the last backup, where it has to compare everything on the Mac to the backups, to figure out what needs to be backed-up.
    Should a machine with 150 GB capacity really be taking so much space on Time Capsule
    Sure. Time Machine will use up all the space available to it, then begin deleting the oldest backup(s) when it needs room for new ones.
    and why the difference between the 1 TB advertised capacity and the <500GB of memory that actually appears to be there?</div>
    It does sound like you have a 500 GB Time Capsule. The original ones were 500 GB; I'm not sure when the 1 TB version came out, and now you can get them with 2 TB. How old is it, and why do you think it's a 1 TB model?

  • Time Machine Error This backup is too large for the backup disk

    Hi, I have a 1TB Time Capsule which backs up my Mac. I was having some issues with my mac so I decided to perform an erase and install and then use Migration Assistant to transfer everything back to my Mac.
    After I reinstalled Snow Leopard and restored my Mac using Migration Assistant, Time Machine says that the backup has failed. It says " Time Machine Error This backup is too large for the backup disk. The Backup requires 663 GB but only 255 GB are available.
    What do I do? Is my only option to erase my Time Capsule and have it back everything up from scratch?

    Hi, thanks for the help. I erased everything off of the Time Capsule and it's backing up my Mac from scratch. It's almost finished backing up my whole mac. It's now at 641.86gb of 646.54gb but it's now backing up very slowly. It's backing up .1 every few minutes. Is this normal?
    Here's the log from Time Machine Buddy:
    Starting standard backup
    Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Stuart%[email protected]/Time%20Capsule
    Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Stuart%[email protected]/Time%20Capsule
    Creating disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule/StuartsMacPro.sparsebundle
    QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
    Disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule/StuartsMacPro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
    Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
    Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
    Detected system migration from: /Volumes/My Book
    Backup content size: 850.0 GB excluded items size: 606.5 GB for volume Stuart's Drive
    Backup content size: 425.9 GB excluded items size: 67.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
    No pre-backup thinning needed: 722.56 GB requested (including padding), 928.68 GB available
    Waiting for index to be ready (101)
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    Message was edited by: Stuart Lawrence

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