LaCie Backup Disk needs 2 TB!!?!?!?!! On an 80 GB HD?!!! How so?

I just got a new HD installed into my Powerbook after my old one of three years started dying. All my files were successfully transfered to my new HD. I thought it would be a good idea to back up my stuff this time, and so I got a LaCie 250 GB external, partitioned it into 3 parts.
I installed the LaCie 1-click back-up and it automatically selected by user home folder or whatever (the house icon with all my files like music and movies and stuff in it) and was prepping to transfer it to my Backup partition which is around 100 GB or so. It then said...
"Cannot Backup...Hard Disk Full...system needs 2.2 TB."
Isn't a TB 1024 GB? If so, how can my home folder hold more than my HD and many times that? I don't get it. Can someone tell me what's going on here? Thanks.

It is obviously an error. Did you format the LaCie in Disk Utility? Choosing HFS+ as the format is the choice for Mac only use.

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The problem is compounded by: green drives, TimeMachine, LaCie. Bad combinations.
Also some people try using different interfaces. Would be nice to have USB3 instead of USB2, try FW400/800 or even eSATA if you had Mac Pro with either ODD ports available (2006-7) or controller.
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http://www.macsales.com/firewire
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My time machine back has been working perfectly well until yesterday when it failed. The error message I get is Files can’t be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be read-only. How do I fix it?

Hello,
http://pondini.org/TM/C6.html

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Lately, my time machine/time capsule has the problem to find the backup disk in the time capsule and cannot perform the backup. I have to reset (at the back of the unit) then the backup can start again, but I can only access the backup data since the last backup, all my previous backup data is no longer available.
Does anyone face the similar situation and how to fix it?

Hi there!
Did you try upgrading to the latest WD Firmware?
It fixes the following:
WD Universal Firmware Updater 3.1.0.10:
Fixes:
Now works with 10.7.x (Lion OS-X)
Now works with new My Book Studio (without Electronic Paper Display), new MyPassport for Mac, and new My Passport Studio model.
Made device detection more robust.
Here's the link to the firmware:
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/wdsmartwareupdate/firmware.asp?id=wdfGeneric&os=ma c
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Time Machine reports backup disc needs to be 8.78 Tb. I only have a 250Gb system drive???

Thought I'd do a TM backup before installing Mavericks. It messed up big time!
I backup manually depending on how much stuff has accumulated. It varies between a few Mb to 3 or 4 Gb sometimes more. Today Time Machine decided that it wanted to reorganise the backup in some way. I watched as the available space on the TM disk went up as TM set about the task. After a couple or three hours TM actually started to do the backup. The size of the backup being 500Gb or something like that. Several hours later of listening to my fans working flat out I cancelled the back up with TM reporting that there was 200 odd Gb to go. No warning from TM to say this was a bad idea. It had been chuntering away for something like 5 hours.
After halting the backup I thought I'd start the backup again just to see how much more needed to be done. This is when I got the report that the backup disk needed to be in the order of Tb. And the oldest backup is now Nov 2013. The oldest backup before this was way back in June 2012 (MacBookPro Rertina mid 2012) when I first bought the computer.
Entering TM I find that even that is not complete. All but a couple of applications have dissapeared as have many other files.
Trouble is I use it as an archive and happily delete files on my hard drive knowing that there is a copy in a backup that pre dates the deletion.
There is also an earlier backup from my previous machine - again as a rarely accessed archive. So that's another reason not to reformat.
I'm pretty sure all is lost and I think I just have to bite the bullet and risk not needing anything from the archive. After all I have CD and DVD backups/archives that go back to the late '90s and I have rarely needed to access them over the years. The biggest loss will be photos. ****!
Anyway. What happened? Why has TM gone off the rails? I have done nothing different to what I have done in 5 years or so. Is this normal behaviour? If I hadn't have cancelled the back up would TM have slowly rebuilt all my backups as was?
Andy

Trouble is I use it as an archive and happily delete files on my hard drive knowing that there is a copy in a backup that pre dates the deletion.
Before going any further please understand that's a very bad idea. It's beyond Time Machine's scope to do that. It is not an archival system and cannot be made to become one. Time Machine guarantees nothing other than one complete copy of the source volume's contents. Anything erased from the source becomes fair game for Time Machine to delete from the backup, the moment it requires the space it occupies.
Next: I have no idea why the problem occurred, but a first and harmless troubleshooting step is to reset Time Machine by doing the following:
Turn off Time Machine first, and make sure a backup is not in progress.
Triple click to select the entire line, then control-click and select Services > Reveal in Finder. Drag the selected file to the Desktop, or directly to the Trash:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
This will not delete your existing backups.
Turn on Time Machine and reselect your backup volume. The effect of deleting that file will cause erroneous values to be shown in the "backing up xxx of yyy" messages until the subsequent backup.
If it's any consolation, terminating Time Machine as you did is not an abnormal user action and did not cause the problem. It may have resulted in inaccurate information being written to the property list, which you will fix by deleting it. It's quite possible that your backups have remained intact. Just remember that anything you delete from the source may no longer exist following the subsequent backup, and that is to be expected.

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Beyond that, Disk Utility has limited abilities to repair disks, DiskWarrior uses a different approach and might, emphasis might be more successful. It has certainly done the job for me in the past when Disk Utility could not.
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So here's my issue I have really FUBAR'ed my laptop LOL. Basically my registry is gone kinda. I can't access any of the vital win7 programs ie Computer, IE9, Control Panel, any folders (documents, pictures music...) stuff like that. Now here's the kicker I can access my games from the start menu and some desktop shortcuts work. All the minor junk like calculator, notepad, wordpad etc. work. Hell I can even do remote desktop (weird I know). My net connection says that I am not connected however I actually am because I can access all of my files via my Desktop.
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I was even unable to run mypccleaner again. luckily though I was able to run the program via the run command kinda. The only part of the program that would actually work was the restore registry before the fix by using the backup file that the program made for me. Yea well that was a flipping joke it made it WORSE!
After all that and a few hours pouring over uneventful fixes I finally downloaded all the default registry values from Microsoft that they had for Win7 from another computer and luckily I was able to get them transferred over to my laptop (thank God for networks) But none of these files had any association so I had to manually add a few using CMD from a post that was buried in another forum until I could make a file association to regedit. Then I added the rest. So now my laptop is kinda working. I have access like I stated above but its only the minor stuff I have access to. I can't run any major program or it says no such interface supported.
So long story short I found an article here Repair Install that should work without losing everything (at this time I can't afford to do that have a DJ gig Saturday) but it says I have to have an original Win7 disk to be able to do it. So my question is if I order the backup disk from here will that disk allow me to be able to do this or am I going to have to find other means.
In all honesty if it wont that's fine I will take it and pay the money to get it repaired (don't really want to do that) as I need it in a couple days and the soonest I could have it back is two weeks. Yes I have a backup laptop but that one is down as well bad HDD LOL have to replace. Wishing now that I would have spent the money on that 1TB external HDD that I was looking at
So again my questions are. Is the backup disk that I can order from here going to be able to solve my problem and if not does anyone here have any solutions. I run VDJ Pro but it says that my soundcard isn't installed or my drivers are bad. So I tried to reinstall the drivers but windows can't find the installshield file to be able to do that. Or is there a backdoor to being able to run WMP (it's an option not a very good one but an option if I can get it to work).
Thank you for taking your time in reading this. I know it's long but I just wanted to get all the info out to anyone that might be able to help me resolve this. So any comment is appreciated again THANK YOU!! I am desperate please!
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I can't lose anything from my laptop. Never backed it up. .. ..pay the money for them to reinstall and back everything up for me.
No need for that, Richard. You can rescue all your important files by the following method. And then restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media.
1. Prepare a thumb drive formatted in FAT32. It doesn't need to be large. This stuff only occupies 130 MB on mine.
2. Download UNetbootin to create the thumb drive.
3. Download a Puppy Linux .iso file for the operating system.
4. Run Unetbootin-win-xxx.exe and point it to the Lupu-xxx.iso file to create a bootable drive.
5. When you power on your computer, hold down the F12 key. That should give you the opportunity to choose the boot drive.
6. For some tips, scroll down to the following sections at this web page.
Mounting drives and partitions in Puppy Linux
Copying your files to external hard disk or USB flash drive
-Jerry

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I need to configure a new hard disk as backup disk for time machine.
The set up program is running since two hours and it says it will take 9 days to backup about 56 GB.
Is it normal ?

Roberto 17 wrote:
I started this morning at 12 and after 5 hours now the backup is about 6 GB up on 56 GB.
The new HD is a WD My Passport Edge 500 GB capacity
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