Time Machine never stops filling the drive. I have a total of 1TB to backup onto a 2TB drive using time machine. It just keeps filling the drive until it runs out and insists on a bigger drive
I have around 1TB to backup. I have a 2 TB backup drive. Time machine fills it in the first pass. It just makes no sense at all. Every hour, time machine mysteriously finds a few hundred more gigs to backup even though i have not used the computer. Now the disk is full and it's demanding a bigger backup drive. This is the second time this has happened.
Michael Oliphant wrote:
I have around 1TB to backup. I have a 2 TB backup drive. Time machine fills it in the first pass.
There's clearly more than 1 TB to be backed-up. Either another internal HD (all internals are backed-up by default), or an external that's not excluded.
What's shown for Estimated size of full backup under the exclusions box in Time Machine Preferences > Options?
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