Time Machine Always Has Something To Back Up?...
Hi
Recently Time Machine somehow always has something to back up - even when the only thing being done on my Mac is some internet browsing. Those backups are normally always around 30-60mb, I can't believe I'm creating that amount of new data each hour - I would surely see a dramatic dip in my Mac hard drive space!? Can anyone shed any light on what's contained within those back ups?
Also, very occasionally, when TM attempts a back up my wireless connection for that particular Mac will fail, and my network prefs tell me that I don't have an IP connection. Other macs/devices are able to connect to the router just fine whilst all this is going on. Sometimes, after 10 or so minutes it reconnects of it's own accord, other times I have to restart the router.
My set up is as follows: WD 1TB Drive connected to Netgear router.
Any help / advice much appreciated - thanks in advance!
Message was edited by: Parbinder Johal
Message was edited by: Parbinder Johal
Parbinder Johal wrote:
Hi
Recently Time Machine somehow always has something to back up - even when the only thing being done on my Mac is some internet browsing. Those backups are normally always around 30-60mb, I can't believe I'm creating that amount of new data each hour - I would surely see a dramatic dip in my Mac hard drive space!? Can anyone shed any light on what's contained within those back ups?
As Baltwo says, those are very small. Among other things, your browser history is likely changing, perhaps some cookies were added, and if you've added a bookmark, all that will be backed-up, too.
And there are some usually small things being updated by other processes.
See #A2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum), for a couple of apps that will show exactly what's being backed-up.
If those small backups seem to be taking too long, see #D2 there for some possible fixes.
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