Time machine is backing up more GB than I have in my HD

iMac, OS 10.6.8
I have a new 1TB HD that I want to use for Time Machine backups. I have 499.76 GB on my iMac HD but TM (which is still copying over to the external HD has put almost 8GB of stiff on it. What's up?

Oh, I see. Nevermind.

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Time Machine backup requires significantly more space than size of hard drive + external

I can't seem to figure out what is going on here. I recently purchased a new Macbook Pro with a 1T SSD hard drive, upgrading from an older MB Pro with a 500 GB hard drive. In the past I've used Time Machine to back up my hard drive and an external hard drive with RAW format photos and video footage that totals 441.56 GB. My internal internal hard drive currently is 487 GB, and I've used a 1TB time machine back up without problem to date.
I used Time Machine to install on the new system and it worked flawlessly, except that the Time Machine backups wouldn't continue. Time Machine--even when left overnight--would get hung up on Preparing Files to Back Up. So, I reformatted the Time Machine disk (lost the old backups) and attempted to back up from scratch. I then got a message that I need 3.37 TB to complete my new Time Machine back up, though the total size of the back up on disk is ~930 GB. I've read that Time Machine needs 20% - 30% overhead on disk to work well, but I can't figure out why it would require 3x the back up size. I'm hesitant to purchase a new 4 TB external hard drive as I suspect this is a software issue. I've tried reformatting the disk twice more (three total), rebooting my computer, etc. but I keep getting the 3.37 TB message. I'm operating Mavericks OS 10.9.4.
I would be grateful for insight on this.
Best,
Alex

Hi Linc, thanks for taking a look at this problem. I just reinitiated a backup to make sure it's most up-to-date. Without the external hard drive, I was able to complete a simple backup. After plugging the external in again, here's the log I got:
8/6/14 11:34:03.228 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Starting automatic backup
8/6/14 11:34:03.660 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Backing up to /dev/disk2s2: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
8/6/14 11:34:04.538 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78808]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:34:04.538 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:34:04.556 PM ReportCrash[78796]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78808] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233404_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:34:10.462 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Media" (device: /dev/disk1s2 mount: '/Volumes/Media' fsUUID: BB6ACCE1-B004-3647-9721-0CE726FAA059 eventDBUUID: 0AC9DC0D-5BE3-4574-94C6-4B041C9C4A26)
8/6/14 11:34:10.469 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Deep event scan at path:/Users/Alex/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/Database/apdb reason:contains changes|must scan subdirs|fsevent|missed reservation|file event|
8/6/14 11:34:10.573 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Finished scan
8/6/14 11:34:10.573 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Not using file event preflight for Macintosh HD
8/6/14 11:34:14.674 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78820]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:34:14.674 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:34:14.693 PM ReportCrash[78796]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78820] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233414_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:34:24.815 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78821]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:34:24.815 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:34:24.835 PM ReportCrash[78796]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78821] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233424_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:34:34.954 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78822]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:34:34.954 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:34:34.978 PM ReportCrash[78796]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78822] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233434_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:34:45.091 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78823]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:34:45.091 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:34:45.109 PM ReportCrash[78796]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78823] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233445_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:34:55.119 PM ReportCrash[78825]: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
8/6/14 11:34:55.242 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78824]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:34:55.242 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:34:55.275 PM ReportCrash[78825]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78824] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233455_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:35:05.377 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78826]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:35:05.377 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:35:05.395 PM ReportCrash[78825]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78826] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233505_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:35:15.514 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78828]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:35:15.514 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:35:15.533 PM ReportCrash[78825]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78828] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233515_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:35:25.653 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78829]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:35:25.653 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:35:25.672 PM ReportCrash[78825]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78829] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233525_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:35:35.789 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78830]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:35:35.789 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:35:35.809 PM ReportCrash[78825]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78830] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233535_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:35:45.923 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78831]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:35:45.923 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:35:45.942 PM ReportCrash[78825]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78831] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233545_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:35:55.950 PM ReportCrash[78833]: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
8/6/14 11:35:56.071 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78832]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:35:56.071 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:35:56.105 PM ReportCrash[78833]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78832] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233556_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:36:06.210 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78834]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:36:06.210 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:36:06.229 PM ReportCrash[78833]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78834] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233606_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:36:10.023 PM WindowServer[109]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
8/6/14 11:36:10.135 PM WindowServer[109]: CGXMuxCapture: Starting
8/6/14 11:36:10.136 PM WindowServer[109]: CGXMuxCapture: Acquired
8/6/14 11:36:10.136 PM WindowServer[109]: Display 0x4280882 captured by conn 0xdf03
8/6/14 11:36:14.010 PM WindowServer[109]: MPAccessSurfaceForDisplayDevice: Set up page flip mode on display 0x04280882 device: 0x7f8682f01ec0 isBackBuffered: 1 numComp: 3 numDisp: 3
8/6/14 11:36:16.346 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78836]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:36:16.346 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:36:16.365 PM ReportCrash[78833]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78836] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233616_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:36:19.883 PM WindowServer[109]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Finder" after 10.86 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
8/6/14 11:36:20.172 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Killing auth hosts
8/6/14 11:36:20.172 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100055 destroyed
8/6/14 11:36:20.213 PM WindowServer[109]: CGXMuxCapture: Released
8/6/14 11:36:20.213 PM WindowServer[109]: Display 0x4280882 released by conn 0xdf03
8/6/14 11:36:20.237 PM WindowServer[109]: MPAccessSurfaceForDisplayDevice: Set up page flip mode on display 0x04280882 device: 0x7f8682f01ec0 isBackBuffered: 1 numComp: 3 numDisp: 3
8/6/14 11:36:26.343 PM com.apple.prefs.backup.remoteservice[78837]: assertion failed: 13E28: liblaunch.dylib + 25164 [A40A0C7B-3216-39B4-8AE0-B5D3BAF1DA8A]: 0x25
8/6/14 11:36:26.396 PM com.apple.prefs.backup.remoteservice[78837]: assertion failed: 13E28: liblaunch.dylib + 25164 [A40A0C7B-3216-39B4-8AE0-B5D3BAF1DA8A]: 0x25
8/6/14 11:36:26.512 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78838]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:36:26.512 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:36:26.536 PM ReportCrash[78833]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78838] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233626_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:36:26.614 PM com.apple.prefs.backup.remoteservice[78837]: Bogus event received by listener connection:
<error: 0x7fff74e8fb50> { count = 1, contents =
"XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff74e8fe60> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
8/6/14 11:36:30.840 PM iTunes[637]: Entered:_AMMuxedDeviceDisconnected, mux-device:840
8/6/14 11:36:30.840 PM iTunes[637]: Entered:__thr_AMMuxedDeviceDisconnected, mux-device:840
8/6/14 11:36:30.841 PM iTunes[637]: tid:1aa47 - Mux ID not found in mapping dictionary
8/6/14 11:36:30.841 PM iTunes[637]: tid:1aa47 - Can't handle disconnect with invalid ecid
8/6/14 11:36:36.647 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78842]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:36:36.647 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:36:36.666 PM ReportCrash[78833]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78842] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233636_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:36:46.781 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78843]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:36:46.781 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:36:46.800 PM ReportCrash[78833]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78843] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233646_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:36:56.814 PM ReportCrash[78845]: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
8/6/14 11:36:56.936 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78844]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:36:56.936 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:36:56.997 PM ReportCrash[78845]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78844] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233656_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:37:07.081 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78846]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:37:07.081 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:37:07.099 PM ReportCrash[78845]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78846] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233707_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:37:17.224 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78847]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:37:17.224 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:37:17.243 PM ReportCrash[78845]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78847] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233717_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:37:27.361 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78849]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:37:27.361 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:37:27.379 PM ReportCrash[78845]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78849] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233727_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:37:35.193 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[40]: _SendAttachNotification Device fc:25:3f:70:c5:7c@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe70:c57c._apple-mobdev2._tcp.local. has already appeared on interface 4. Suppressing duplicate attach notification.
8/6/14 11:37:37.496 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78851]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:37:37.496 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:37:37.515 PM ReportCrash[78845]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78851] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233737_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:37:47.636 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78852]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:37:47.636 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:37:47.656 PM ReportCrash[78845]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78852] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233747_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:37:57.665 PM ReportCrash[78855]: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
8/6/14 11:37:57.785 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78854]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:37:57.785 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:37:57.845 PM ReportCrash[78855]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78854] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233757_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:38:07.920 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78856]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:38:07.920 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:38:07.939 PM ReportCrash[78855]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78856] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233807_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:38:18.056 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78859]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:38:18.056 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:38:18.076 PM ReportCrash[78855]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78859] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233818_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:38:28.000 PM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1000): p=78861[GoogleSoftwareUp] final status 0x0, allowing (remove VALID) page
8/6/14 11:38:28.205 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78860]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:38:28.205 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:38:28.225 PM ReportCrash[78855]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78860] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233828_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:38:38.341 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78862]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:38:38.341 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:38:38.360 PM ReportCrash[78855]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78862] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233838_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:38:48.481 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78863]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:38:48.481 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:38:48.499 PM ReportCrash[78855]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78863] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233848_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:38:58.507 PM ReportCrash[78865]: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
8/6/14 11:38:58.628 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78864]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:38:58.628 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:38:58.664 PM ReportCrash[78865]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78864] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233858_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:39:08.768 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78866]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:39:08.768 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:39:08.787 PM ReportCrash[78865]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78866] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233908_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:39:18.907 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78868]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:39:18.907 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:39:18.926 PM ReportCrash[78865]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78868] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233918_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:39:29.043 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78869]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:39:29.043 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:39:29.063 PM ReportCrash[78865]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78869] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233929_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:39:33.045 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Deep event scan at path:/Volumes/Media reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|
8/6/14 11:39:33.046 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Finished scan
8/6/14 11:39:33.046 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Not using file event preflight for Media
8/6/14 11:39:35.803 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Found 70992 files (587.73 GB) needing backup
8/6/14 11:39:35.834 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: 611.31 GB required (including padding), 518.88 GB available
8/6/14 11:39:35.834 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
8/6/14 11:39:39.185 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78870]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:39:39.185 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:39:39.204 PM ReportCrash[78865]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78870] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233939_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:39:47.777 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Alex Edmunds’s MacBook Pro/2014-08-06-041205 containing 29.2 MB; 518.92 GB now available, 611.31 GB required
8/6/14 11:39:47.777 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Removed 1 expired backups so far, more space is needed - deleting oldest backups to make room
8/6/14 11:39:49.315 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78872]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:39:49.315 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:39:49.334 PM ReportCrash[78865]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78872] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233949_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:39:50.722 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Alex Edmunds’s MacBook Pro/2014-08-06-050217 containing 16.4 MB; 518.93 GB now available, 611.31 GB required
8/6/14 11:39:50.722 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Removed 2 expired backups so far, more space is needed - deleting oldest backups to make room
8/6/14 11:39:54.321 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Alex Edmunds’s MacBook Pro/2014-08-06-060415 containing 37.3 MB; 518.97 GB now available, 611.31 GB required
8/6/14 11:39:54.321 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Removed 3 expired backups so far, more space is needed - deleting oldest backups to make room
8/6/14 11:39:59.342 PM ReportCrash[78874]: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
8/6/14 11:39:59.381 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Alex Edmunds’s MacBook Pro/2014-08-06-070639 containing 108.3 MB; 519.09 GB now available, 611.31 GB required
8/6/14 11:39:59.381 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Removed 4 expired backups so far, more space is needed - deleting oldest backups to make room
8/6/14 11:39:59.467 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78873]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:39:59.467 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:39:59.507 PM ReportCrash[78874]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78873] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-233959_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:40:02.467 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Alex Edmunds’s MacBook Pro/2014-08-06-080909 containing 91.3 MB; 519.18 GB now available, 611.31 GB required
8/6/14 11:40:02.467 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Removed 5 expired backups so far, more space is needed - deleting oldest backups to make room
8/6/14 11:40:02.467 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Deleted 5 backups containing 282.4 MB total; 519.18 GB now available, 611.31 GB required
8/6/14 11:40:02.467 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Backup date range was shortened: oldest backup is now Aug 6, 2014
8/6/14 11:40:03.163 PM com.apple.backupd[78806]: Backup failed with error 7: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
8/6/14 11:40:09.597 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78877]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:40:09.597 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:40:09.616 PM ReportCrash[78874]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78877] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-234009_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:40:19.731 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78878]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:40:19.731 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:40:19.749 PM ReportCrash[78874]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78878] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-234019_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash
8/6/14 11:40:29.863 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist[78879]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10
8/6/14 11:40:29.863 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (cn.com.zte.MessageCenter.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/6/14 11:40:29.882 PM ReportCrash[78874]: Saved crash report for MessageCenter[78879] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/MessageCenter_2014-08-06-234029_Alex-Edmundss-M acBook-Pro.crash

Time Machine takes up much more space than actually data backed up...

Every time I backup with time machine, it uses up gigs of space on my backup drive, regardless of increment or decrement of data on Mac. I could put 200 megs since last backup and TM eats 4 gigs. I don't change the file exclusion selections at all. Just curious if anyone knows why that is?

I find it hard to believe I added 4gb since last backup.
You'd be surprised. Sometimes you add more than you think. Any downloads, recently edited documents, etc all will add to the total. Plus system files such as browser history are updated and backed up as well. If it has been a few days since your last backup, I wouldn't worry. If this is happening ALL the time and you know that you have been barely using your computer, you may have a problem that needs to be further looked into.

Time Capsule is backing up more than is used in my hard drive

Hi!
I have been using TC for more than four years and my current one is my second. I am very happy with it and I think it is one of the best apple developments.
However, I have upgrade to Mavericks recently (I update from scratch) and my initial backup become longer than in previous occasions. I have erase also the time capsule because I wanted to have a fresh start everywhere.
Additionally to this longer time backing up I have come to something quite astonishing... Time Machine is backing up more GB than I am actually using in my hard drive... Can someone explain this for me?
Thanks
PS1/ I am doing everything through wifi, and I have an airport port express in the middle.
PS2/ The speed of the back up is just fine... It is not as fast as the previous ones I have done from scratch. I am more worried about the amount of data that it backed up... Besides, in the time machine configuration I do not have all my hard drive for back up. e.g. I have a virtual machine and it is not backep up.
Message was edited by: lpuerto

Some of it.. is the difference between digital bytes and binary bytes.
You are contrasting the Apple bytes and Orange bytes and worrying why they don't match up.. they will never match up. They are not the same.
If you did not realise it, apple changed the way TM reads the disks to digital bytes.. so a 2TB drive does not format to 1.8TB which is the correct size in binary bytes. (real bytes)
Your HD info on the other hand is actually measuring binary bytes.
If you did not realise..
Here is v5.6 airport utility
Here is v6 airport utility looking at the same drive.
And Time Machine.
How does one version of the utility see the disk as 2TB and the other as 1.8TB.. simple.. one is real bytes and the other is the hard disk manufacturers way of making disks look bigger than they are.. ie digital bytes.
So nowadays I just ignore everything the Mac tells you about file sizes because none of it is now believable. What is truth? When you stop having standards then truth is in the eye of the advertising man and you always get the biggest number for specs and lowest number for price.. and neither are true.
if you are using digital bytes or binary bytes.. so think of it as your maths teacher taught you.. 6 apples does not equal 6 oranges. And when you throw away the standard who knows what you are counting.
Check Pondini for info about what size a backup really is.
http://pondini.org/TM/D4.html

Can somebody tell me please: does Time Machine automatically back up iPhoto?

Can somebody tell me please: does Time Machine automatically back up iPhoto?

Unless you have excluded it, it will backup the iPhoto Library.
Ciao.

Time Machine Backing up more data than I actually have

I have approximately 280 gigs of stuff on my hard drive. I have attempted to use TM to back up everything to a 1TB external hard drive multiple times.
I let it back up overnight. When I come to the office in the morning it will say something like: "725.6 G of 725.6 G backed up" then both numbers will continue to go up. So, I stop the backup.
I've combed through all of the support articles/posts here and on other sites. I've reformatted the drive several times, I've excluded pretty much everything including the external hard drive itself.
(Strangely enough, when I exclude the external hard drive, the exclude panel says that it has 630G worth of data on it. In the general TM preferences, it says it is empty. I've erased it several times. The finder shows the HD as empty... But, that may just be unrelated)
I don't have VM ware. I don't have any antivirus programs. The only thing that no one else seems to have mentioned on the forums is that my computer is networked.
In short, I have 300G worth of data that I need backed up. I have an empty 1TB drive. When I attempt to do so, it backs up 700+G before I stop it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

probonoindustries wrote:
I have approximately 280 gigs of stuff on my hard drive. I have attempted to use TM to back up everything to a 1TB external hard drive multiple times.
I let it back up overnight. When I come to the office in the morning it will say something like: "725.6 G of 725.6 G backed up" then both numbers will continue to go up. So, I stop the backup.
What's shown for the "Estimated size of full backup" under the exclusions box in TM Preferences?
I've excluded pretty much everything including the external hard drive itself.
Your TM drive should be excluded automatically, and shown in gray, meaning you can't remove the exclusion. If it's not, do a "full reset" per #A4 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
(Strangely enough, when I exclude the external hard drive, the exclude panel says that it has 630G worth of data on it. In the general TM preferences, it says it is empty. I've erased it several times. The finder shows the HD as empty... But, that may just be unrelated)
Check it's setup, via #C1 in the Troubleshooting Tip. Also see if it has more than one partition (the indented line or lines under the main one for the drive in the Disk Utility sidebar). If it has more than one, should it? If so, be sure the other partition is excluded. If not, reformat it to a single partition per the instructions in #5 of the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
The only thing that no one else seems to have mentioned on the forums is that my computer is networked.
That shouldn't be a problem, as Time Machine cannot back up a network drive.

Enabling Time Maachine to back-up more than one drive

My 1TB Time Machine is setup as my Ethernet hub and it backs up my main drive flawlessly. I am not using the Airport feature. I need Time Machine to back up a second internal drive which contains all of my pictures and tunes. Apple Support could not tell me how to do this other than to refer me to two second party software products, Super Duper and Carbon Copy Cloner. So far, their websites have not been particularly helpful. Any suggestions?

Hi -
I've got 4 internal drives (2 on main cable, 2 connected to a SATA card for >128 MB capacity drives). When I first set up Time Machine to backup my disks, it was planning on backing up all 4 drives, judging by the amount of GB it wanted to backup. Since I was using one of those drives as a backup already (with deva vu), I didn't want/need to back that one up. There's an option to NOT include certain drives in the Time Machine / Time Capsule backup process.
Check the amount of disk space used on all your drives and compare it to the amount that Time Machine says it plans to backup. I think by default it backs up all connected drives.
Hopefully this helps, sorry if the instructions are a little vague, I'm not at home right now, so am not entirely sure what the <exclude> button was actually called.
Good Luck

My time machine says it need more room to complete back up, how do i make more room? up

My time machine says it need more room to complete back up, how do i make more room?

Delete the old backups..
There is a reason though for this to happen. Tell us what model Time Capsule you are using and what size disk it has .. how much free space is available and how much is now required. If you upgraded to Mavericks it probably needs to do a whole new backup and simply doesn't have the space .. nor can it delete the old backup.
Please read Pondini FAQ for details of these issues.. deleting backups for example Q12
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
There is also info on how much space is required for backups.
eg Q9

Can I consolidate Time Machine backup archives from more than one HDs?

I have several HDs with Time Machine archives on them. One is 1TB, one is 500GB, and another is 250GB. I am out of space on all three and I am considering buying a 3TB HD. Can I consolidate all the existing archives? If so, how do I do that? If not, how can I search all three (or four if I buy the new drive) archives if the Time Machine preference only allow me to use one archive HD at a time?

In Time Machine Preferences click on search another drive.
Have a nice day.

Can we use Time Machine to back up data on Time Capsule from the outside of network?

I have Time Capsule at home. Can I use Time Machine to back up data of portable nootebook when I am working at office?

If you mean over the internet, you can but it will be so slow and more than likely so unreliable it is a poor method to use. Remember all internet is limited to upload speed.
Lion does a temporary backup onto local hard disk.. which is useless of course if the hard drive is damaged.. but helps if you delete an important file. Then when you go back home and it discovers the TC is available it will then backup again from where it left off.
I think it is only a major issue if you are away from home for major lengths of time, weeks or months.

Using Time Machine to back up to a Windows 2003 Server

I am trying to set up my Time Machine to back up to a windows 2003 server share. I have found some hacks on how to do so, however i am not successful.
What I have done so far:
TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 in terminal, which got TM to see my shared drives, however, when i try to backup to my specific drive it gives me an error of not being able to write disk image. So i did:
hdiutil create -size 100g -fs HFS+J -volname “TimeMachine Hcomp” Hcomp_000045128a91.sparsebundle
using the appropriate mac address, volume name, and OSX computer name. However, when i run that in terminal, it comes back with a message saying it can only create one volume at a time.
I'm not quite sure where to go from here, I feel so close, but im stuck.
Also, on another side note, If I get this working, I would like to find a way where when TM is backing up data, it does not pop up the work bar window, I would prefer if it just worked in the background, and show it's status in the menu. I dont know if this is possible, But any suggestions would be of help
Thanks in advance!

AFreeman wrote:
Thanks for the response,
I understand the requirements for TM to work, and In the steps i've been trying, you'll see that the command 'hdiutil create -size 100g -fs HFS+J -volname “TimeMachine Hcomp” Hcomp_000045128a91.sparsebundle ' creates and HFS drive partition on my server share.
I guess i'm not looking for an answer as to why when i enter this command, I get a response of only one volume can be created at a time. Am I missing something in this command?
Thanks!
Since you are using a hack, and therefore in an unsupported area, I suppose anything possible.
You might browse around the TimeCapsule forum which more closely represents what you are doing than this forum
The TC forum is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1253
It's possible that it may be a limitation of the system, hack or no hack.

Time Machine not backing up 2nd external drive, remove option grayed out

I have two external hard drives, 300gb (firewire) and 500gb (usb). Time Machine is backing up to the 300gb. In Time Machine's options, the 500gb is excluded from being backed up, and the remove option is grayed out.
The 300gb Time Machine Backup drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended. The 500gb drive is formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32).
I know the backup drive needs to be formatted as Mac OS Extended, but will it not even back up other drives that are FAT32?

I am having a similar problem. I initially set it up 3 days ago and had it back up just the iMac to Time Capsule (about 120 GB) which it did no problem (I initially had my LaCie drive excluded). I then un-excluded my other drive, where all my photos and music reside (about 130 GB). Since then, it keeps trying to back up about 102 GB each time. Looking at the list of backups it does not appear that it has ever successfully backed up the LaCie. I am not aware of any error messages, but I have not been home much. I normally shut down the computer at night but I have been leaving it on trying to let Time Machine do its thing. All I can say is that every time I am at the computer TM is running and it always looks like it is in the middle of backing up 102 GB (usually seems to be near the beginning, never seem to see it more than halfway done). Looking at the TM panel it says the latest backup was 2 days ago. I'd appreciate any advice!

Can you use time machine to back up an external hard drive?

I haven't used Time Machine so far and setting it up now.
Because my retina MBP has the limited hard drive size of 500GB, I'll be using a 2TB G-Tech hard drive as external hard drive.
I'll be partitioning it, 500 GB for the MBP as a time machine back-up, the rest as a hard drive for photography RAW files.
Can I set up time machine to back up the larger partition (the one with the RAW files) to a second external hard drive? Or does Time Machine only handle back-up from the main computer hard drive?
thanks!

Try reviewing this information.
Time Machine FAQ
You will definitely need more than 500 GB to use Time Machine - see question 1.
Time Machine works with the main hard drive and any locally attached storage, but I don't know of any way to make it backup the second partition without resetting the Time Machine Preferences. You can do that with a cloning program.
Clone - Carbon Copy Cloner
Clone – Data Backup
Clone – Deja Vu
Clone - SuperDuper
Clone Software – 6 Applications Tested
Two backups are better than one. Drives do fail.

Using Time Machine to back up an external drive?

I have an external HD containing my iTunes library attached to my Airport Extreme Base Station. Is it possible to use Time Machine to back up the AEBS-attached HD onto a different HD? I would connect the new HD directly to my MacBook and in an ideal situation, Time Machine would create a fresh back-up of my AEBS HD (iTunes library) every time I connected the second HD to my MacBook.
I may be making this more difficult than it needs to be. I just want to be able to back up my iTunes library to a second HD which I still have to purchase.
Any ideas?

Yes, just be sure the drive is online and not in the exclude list. Note that TM can only backup to one designated backup drive. If you add a second drive for backup, TM cannot use it and the currently designated backup drive simultaneously.

HT201250 I want to use Time Machine to back up my pictures because my hard drive is full but I'm wondering if once I back up the pictures then delete them will time machine delete them off the back up too?

I want to use Time Machine to back up my pictures because my hard drive is full but I'm wondering if once I back up the pictures then delete them will time machine delete them off the back up too?

Evetually yes.
If your pictures have been in the same location (same folder, same subfolder, ...) for more than a week, then copies if them will remain in your TM backups until it fills up. They are then vulnerable to being deleted.
If they've been there for less than a week, TM could delete them as early as a month from now. If they've been there for only a few hours, chances are TM will delete them tomorrow.
This is why TM is not the best tool to use to archive data that you will be deleting from your main hard drive. Copy them to a dedicated external drive, or burn DVDs.

Time machine is backing up more GB than I have in my HD

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