Not sure Time Machine is set up properly
I launched Time Machine today on my Mac Pro Quad running 10.5.6. The backup drive is a new internal WD 1.0TB sata drive I got as a christmas present. It is in drive bay 2. My computer, naturally, has the boot drive it came with and this seems to be backing up every hour as I expected it would. But my computer also has an external LaCie 250 Gig drive that does not seem to be backing up.
During the initial backup I got a report showing the data being transferred was equal to the combined total of both drives. But after that was finished when I look at the Time Machine display I see backup images only for the main drive. There's about 4 of them now. If I click on the icon for the external drive I see only an image for "now" there are no backup images going into the past.
My guess is that I have not made any changes to any of the data on the external drive since doing the initial backup and so no additional backups have been required.
Can anyone confirm this?
I want to be sure I've got both drives being backed up.
Thanks to anyone who offers information.
Dr. Richard Sutor wrote:
During the initial backup I got a report showing the data being transferred was equal to the combined total of both drives. But after that was finished when I look at the Time Machine display I see backup images only for the main drive. There's about 4 of them now. If I click on the icon for the external drive I see only an image for "now" there are no backup images going into the past.
My guess is that I have not made any changes to any of the data on the external drive since doing the initial backup and so no additional backups have been required.
No, the TM display should show a "snapshot" of the way your system looked at the time of any backup -- not just the new or changed items.
I want to be sure I've got both drives being backed up.
Start with a Finder window. Either click your computer name (not internal HD) in the sidebar, or press ShiftCmdC). That should show all the drives/partitions, etc., currently attached. Now click the TM icon in your Dock (or select +Enter Time Machine+* from the TM icon in your Menubar).
The +Today (Now)+ display should be similar. Then if you select any backup, the display should show one folder for each drive/partition that was present at the time of the selected backup. So if the LaCie was ejected at the time of the backup, it won't appear.
If the external drive is shown, you should be able to see all the contents as they were at the time.
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