Timemachine is creating huge daily backups

Nearly every day, TM copies tens of GB of data to my external harddisk, although only 10-20 MB have changed. This is a very strange behavior in Lion and happens only there. I installed a 2 TB harddrive about ten days ago and this thin is already 25% full of data.
Is there anything I can do? I excluded the System folder and my application, but it nevertheless keeps on pumping GBs of data to the hard drive (connected to a TimeCapsule via WiFi).
Thanks for any help. (I don't want to cram my house with hard drives...)

Hi,
Have a look at D4 in this Pondini TM link:
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html
You may also find this Discussion of Interest:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15722466#15722466
Cheers,

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Hi There,
I have searched around the forums and cannot find an answer to my problem.
I am using time machine over a 1TB time capsule, my laptop is the only computer that is backing up to the drive,
Originally I noticed that my time machine backups were taking a long time (over 7 hours while connected through Ethernet)
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I have performed a disk and permission repair on both the time capsule drive and on the Macbook through the install DVD, however each time I initiate time machine on the freshly reconditioned drives it happens again.
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bigjnz wrote:
I have downloaded BackupLoupe and using this utility I have found that daily backups of my entire Itunes music Library are being made (122GB).
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If so, the iTunes folder itself may be damaged. That happens occasionally; something in a folder object gets corrupted, and Time Machine either doesn't find real changes, or thinks everything changed.
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I bought the new Apple 2 TB Time Capsule thinking it would be a great way to get a powerful wireless router and handle file backup for both me and my wife's iMacs. She is running an up-to-date version of Snow Leopard and I am on the most recent update of Mountain Lion. The Time Capsule was installed and running by the first of August and we had no problems until this monday (7 weeks later) when I got the message that "Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability Time Machinge must create a new backup" My wife's back up was still ok but I had to go though the 5-6 hour process of re-copying all my files(using an ethernet connection) to the device. All went smoothly for a few days until I got the same message again about creating a new backup. Also my wife cannot enter her time machine files even though the computer is still being backed up. We have a stable internet service and both computers recieve a strong signal from the router. Is it possible that the Time Capsule Drive is defective? Is there any sort of maintenance such as zpping the PRAM that would help? This is really frustrating as it looks like the timemachine backup is totally unreliable and not worth fooling with. Is there any way to use the storage capability of the time capsule without going through time machine?
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hi
rest assured you are not alone. i have the same problem and i hate it with a passion. in fact, i am the victim of this message as of 20 minutes ago and doing a full backup as I am typing this. I am so overly ****** that I actually posted here and will be calling or emailing apple next because I cannot take this anymore. the problem lies in time machine and unfortunately, there is no fix for that. time machine is the best idea of apple with the worst implementation ever. you have no obligation to use time capsule to benefit from time machine as this would not be legal anyway. i will give you 2 temporary solutions and let you decide which one works best for you:
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2) install CCC (carbon copy cleaner) I have not used it myself yet, but probably will be installing it after finishing this post. it is claimed to be better, yet it is yet to be seen by me personally.
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RMAN MONTHLY/WEEKLY/DAILY backups

Hi,
Using RMAN how can I schedule MONTHLY/WEEKLY/DAILY backups.
We are using TIVOLI for our backups.
I want to keep the monthly/weekly backups in seperate tapes so that I can use later.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
You will nedd to create 3 RMAN backups using TAGs and congifure Tivoli to put MONTHLY/WEEKLY/DAILY backup on different tapes using the TAGs that you created.
Example of backups:
DAILY
run{
allocate channel t1 device type sbt_tape parms 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo_SID.opt)';
allocate channel t2 device type sbt_tape parms 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo_SID.opt)';
backup
incremental level 1
format 'BKP_HOT_DAILY_SID_%U'
database
tag 'DAILY_SID';
backup current controlfile format 'BKP_CTL_DAILY_SID_%U';
WEEKLY
run{
allocate channel t1 device type sbt_tape parms 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo_SID.opt)';
allocate channel t2 device type sbt_tape parms 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo_SID.opt)';
backup
incremental level 0
format 'BKP_HOT_WEEKLY_SID_%U'
database
tag 'WEEKLY_SID';
backup current controlfile format 'BKP_CTL_WEEKLY_SID_%U';
MONTHLY
run{
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allocate channel t2 device type sbt_tape parms 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo_SID.opt)';
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format 'BKP_HOT_MONTHLY_SID_%U'
database
tag 'MONTHLY_SID' keep forever logs;
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Hello,
My real need is simply to do a daily backup of a database : I have SQL Server 2008
( not express ) .
My user is sa and has full control on the database.
I have searched the web and found many places where they say to do a Task -> Backup and then click on "script action to job". This option is greyed out ( and it is NOT express) and I am using the sa
user will FULL privileges.
I read here ( http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/4c5b5ff3-f2cd-4439-b878-de0891a5eedf/sql-server-management-studio-express-script-action-to-job-grayed-out?forum=sqldatabaseengine ) that I may need to "Install
Integration Services" .
However, when I go to do this (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143731(v=sql.105).aspx ) , I read:
You can install SQL Server Integration Services on a computer that has no previous instances of SQL Server.
Well, my server is already installed and running in production.
Q: can I "Install Integration Services" even if I have an SQL server installed and running ?
Q: do I absolutely require to have Integration Services to automate the backups?
Q: any simple way to just dump the database every night to a folder ?
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Unable to perform daily backup

Dear all,
We are running daily backup in the afternoon, but I don't know why the daily backup takes more than 20 minus without any progresss. Here is the log.
Please advice.
Daily Backup Database begun on date Tue Mar 31 13:18:45 HKT 2009
Recovery Manager: Release 9.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
Copyright (c) 1995, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: PROD (DBID=1357907388)
RMAN> Run
2> {
3> CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
4> CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '/backup/db/backup/RMAN/%F.bck';
5> CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 1 DAYS;
6> allocate channel ch1 type disk format '/backup/db/backup/RMAN/backup_%d_%t_%s_%p_%U.bck';
7> backup incremental level 1 cumulative database plus archivelog delete all input;
8> backup current controlfile;
9> backup spfile;
10> release channel ch1;
11> }
12> allocate channel for maintenance type disk;
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14> delete noprompt archivelog all backed up 2 times to disk;
15>
16>
using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog
old RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
new RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored
old RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '/backup/db/backup/RMAN/%F.bck';
new RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '/backup/db/backup/RMAN/%F.bck';
new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored
old RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 1 DAYS;
new RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 1 DAYS;
new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored
allocated channel: ch1
channel ch1: sid=37 devtype=DISK
Starting backup at 31-MAR-09*
current log archived_
Best Regards,
Amy

Yes, enough space.
I am looking at the alert log and here are some questions:
Tue Mar 31 12:23:53 2009
ARC0: Evaluating archive log 2 thread 1 sequence 264871
ARC0: Beginning to archive log 2 thread 1 sequence 264871
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: '/u02/oracle/prod/proddb/9.2.0/dbs/arch1_264871.dbf'
ARC0: Completed archiving log 2 thread 1 sequence 264871
Tue Mar 31 12:42:48 2009
Beginning log switch checkpoint up to RBA [0x40aa9.2.10], SCN: 0x0000.8ce3c8bd
Tue Mar 31 12:42:48 2009
ARCH: Evaluating archive log 3 thread 1 sequence 264872
Tue Mar 31 12:42:48 2009
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 264873
Current log# 4 seq# 264873 mem# 0: /u01/oracle/proddata/log04a.dbf
Tue Mar 31 12:42:48 2009
ARCH: Beginning to archive log 3 thread 1 sequence 264872
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: '/u02/oracle/prod/proddb/9.2.0/dbs/arch1_264872.dbf'
Tue Mar 31 12:42:48 2009
ARC1: Evaluating archive log 3 thread 1 sequence 264872
ARC1: Unable to archive log 3 thread 1 sequence 264872_
Log actively being archived by another process
Tue Mar 31 12:42:50 2009
Completed checkpoint up to RBA [0x40aa8.2.10], SCN: 0x0000.8ce3a4e8
Tue Mar 31 12:42:50 2009
ARCH: Completed archiving log 3 thread 1 sequence 264872
Tue Mar 31 13:03:43 2009
Completed checkpoint up to RBA [0x40aa9.2.10], SCN: 0x0000.8ce3c8bd
Tue Mar 31 13:18:59 2009
Beginning log switch checkpoint up to RBA [0x40aaa.2.10], SCN: 0x0000.8ce40ad0
Tue Mar 31 13:18:59 2009
ARCH: Evaluating archive log 4 thread 1 sequence 264873
Tue Mar 31 13:18:59 2009
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 264874
Current log# 1 seq# 264874 mem# 0: /u01/oracle/proddata/log01a.dbf
Tue Mar 31 13:18:59 2009
ARCH: Beginning to archive log 4 thread 1 sequence 264873
Tue Mar 31 13:18:59 2009
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: '/u02/oracle/prod/proddb/9.2.0/dbs/arch1_264873.dbf'
Tue Mar 31 13:18:59 2009
ARC1: Evaluating archive log 4 thread 1 sequence 264873
Tue Mar 31 13:18:59 2009
ARC1: Unable to archive log 4 thread 1 sequence 264873_
Log actively being archived by another process_
Tue Mar 31 13:18:59 2009
ARCH: Completed archiving log 4 thread 1 sequence 264873
Tue Mar 31 13:39:28 2009
Completed checkpoint up to RBA [0x40aaa.2.10], SCN: 0x0000.8ce40ad0
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Thanks,
Amy

Co-location for daily backup

I have created a protection group for file server and taking backup of a share on tape drive.
under protection method--> I chose I want short-term protection using : tape
retention range: 1 week
frequency of backup: daily
backup mode: full and incremental
so full backup on Saturday and other days incremental backup.
I have around 700 GB data size.
I have shortages of tape. from recovery option: I saw in this month on 12thOct, on Saturday it run full backup. It took one tape [say tape 1]
on the next 6 days it run incremental backup on another tape.[say tape 2]
again on Saturday for full backup it took tape 3 [tape 3]
again to run incremental backup it is asking for free tape. and back up failed.
in this way I am wasting space on tape. data size is 700 GB, tape size is around 3 TB.
I can see there is option in 'optimize usage' where I can mention under advanced. write period and expiry tolerance.
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Hi,
It is currently working as designed for tape library.
See the following TechNet page:
How DPM Uses Tape Libraries
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh757885.aspx
Short-term tape "full and incremental" option
The full backup will require a free tape for each scheduled job, and the incremental backup for all data sources will be appended to a single separate tape.
As tapes fill up, new free tapes will be allocated.
When the next full backup occurs, it will require another free tape, and subsequent incremental backups will be appended to another free tape.
So basically, you will need three sets of tapes for a 1 week retention range.
Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Regards, Mike J. [MSFT]
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Daily backup to FireWire drive

What is the best way to setup daily backup to external FireWire drive connected to Xserve?

Tom,
Is it just me or is Automator the most dissapointing thing that Apple have done for a while?
I've been attempting to do what you tried and I've wasted hours on this to no benefit. I followed a tutorial from maccreative mag and it simply does not work. The suggestion is to create smart folders and have them copied to an archive and then burn a disc. It sounds easy and sensible, but it does not work. I tried it and the disc only has references to the files not copies.
So, be warned, you can do this and it will appear to work, but if you disconnect your drive and take it away their won't be any data.
Regards,
Mark

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I am trying to restore a file a week old. The scale on the right of Time Machine goes back to April 2009, which indeed when I set it up. But the tick marks for daily backups are grayed on the scale and I can't seem to access them. The hourly backups are fine. (BTW, I noticed that daily backups are grayed in one of apple's documentation screenshots, too). I have a 5G Time Capsule, which is only half full, and I have never got any message that early backups are being deleted. I think I am being stupid, but I am stumped.

First, Time Machine does "thin" current backups:
Your very first backup, and the first backup of the same day of each week is kept for as long as there's room.
The first backup of each other day is kept for a month; all others are kept for 24 hours.
You'll only get a message when TM is deleting the oldest weeklies to make room for new ones.
Most likely, what you're seeing with the grayed-out backups is, what you see in Time Machine may depend on how you get there. Start with a Finder window pointed to your home folder, and with both a sidebar and toolbar; then +Enter Time Machine+ and see if the other backups are there.
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Dear all,
I am the first time to scheduling the daily backup, I have following questions:
1) My daily backup scripts in what format? for example: in sh format
Run
     CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
     CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 7 DAYS;
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     backup incremental level 1 cumulative database plus archivelog delete all input;
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     delete noprompt archivelog all backed up 2 times to disk;
     backup current controlfile;
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Minute hour [Day of Month] [Month] [Day of Week]
Minute (0)
Hour (24)
Day of month (??)
Month (every month)
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Best Regards,
Amy

Hi,
Firstly, if you are using recovery catalog, then create rman scripts and In case you dont have recobery catalog, then add the backup script in the .sh file .
Then create .sh file and not to forget add environment variable for oracle in that .sh file.
Then schedule that file with cron and format you know for the cron.
Make sure cron is started on the machine.
Example for .sh file is
export ORACLE_SID=<ORACLE_SID>
export path=<ORACLE_PATH>
rman<<EOF
connect target sys/<password
run{
body
but the best way is to go for rman backup scripts using recobery catalog
THanks,
Navneet

I got the message: Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you. I got the message: Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Ma

I got the message:
Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.
Here's what the text of the system.log says when I filter for backupd:
Jan 9 11:37:14 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2618]: Starting standard backup
Jan 9 11:37:14 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2618]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TimeMachine
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Jan 9 11:37:33 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2618]: Backup canceled.
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Jan 9 11:48:20 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2859]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TimeMachine
Jan 9 11:48:42 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2859]: Recovery backup declined by user.
Jan 9 11:48:43 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2859]: Backup canceled.
Jan 9 11:51:07 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2917]: Starting standard backup
Jan 9 11:51:07 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2917]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TimeMachine
Jan 9 11:51:34 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2917]: Recovery backup declined by user.
Jan 9 11:51:34 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2917]: Backup canceled.
Jan 9 11:53:50 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2987]: Starting standard backup
Jan 9 11:53:50 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2987]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TimeMachine
Jan 9 11:54:07 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2987]: Recovery backup declined by user.
Jan 9 11:54:07 justin-steeds-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[2987]: Backup canceled

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https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion

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I've been doing a bit a reading here, but I am still unsure of what I need to do. I recetnly upgraded from Snow Leopard to ML, but I want to create a bootable (mirror) backup on an external drive. I have always used SuperDuper to do this. Super Duper claims that it's latest version will create a bootable backup of ML. My backups in the past have been a bootable mirror of my drive and not the OS alone. Am I better off just redownloading ML and creating a bootable thumb drive of ML or would I be ok mirroring my drive with ML on it as a bootable backup. I hope this was clear...
My backup system has been like this:
Two 1tb bootable HDs (mirrored) that I swap out every week - the one not in use goes into a fire safe
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Cloud backup for important stuff.
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For example, if you create the thumb drive while in Mountain Lion, its Recovery HD is put on the thumb drive. And when you boot from that thumb drive, you get the Utilities menu of selections with the ability to download and install Mountain Lion. So, you can't use that thumb drive to download and install Lion. Hope this makes sense.

Creating a bootable backup for upgrade to Lion

I've read some articles and watched some videos on how to create a disk of my drive from the disk utility. Is that a good way to create a bootable backup of my Mac Mini? I also want to have all my applications transferred over to Lion, though I know how to do that in the installation of the OS. But I want a fresh install over Snow Leopard and reinstall my apps from that bootable disk, again is that possible? If this can work, how can I know for sure if the backup works?

Spinland wrote:
Then what CSound1 said: use CCC to clone your drive to another disk for safekeeping, then install Lion and enjoy. All of your apps will still be there after the upgrade.
Have you checked to make sure your apps are Lion compatible? This guide can help you find out:
http://fairerplatform.com/2011/07/are-your-apps-lion-compatible-how-to-check/
Hi Spinland
That is not what I said exactly ......
1 Clone the SL (internal) to the external.
2 Boot from the external and install Lion on it.
3 Run Lion from the clone until you know it works (and you can identify any incompatible apps).
4 Clone the Lion external back to the internal.
5 You're done.

If i selected to "Create a new backup" and then cancelled that option but want to go back and select "Inherit backup history"; how do i go back and do that since now when i plug in my HD, that option doesn't appear anymore?? Any Help?

If i selected to "Create a new backup" and then canceled that option but want to go back and select "Inherit backup history"; how do I go back and do that since now when I plug in my external hard drive, that option doesn't appear anymore?? Any Help? I bought a MacBook Air, but decided to return it for the newest model, and I wanted to back it up so that I can then back it up on my new MacBook Air. I didn't understand the option to Inherit or start a new back up, and therefore selected the option to create a new backup. I believe I should have selected to Inherit backup history so that when i back it up on the new MackBook Air, it appears the same as the one I'm returning.... Is there anyway that i can re-select the option to Inherit backup history for time machine?

Thanks for sharing this link.
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