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I want to backup JUST the Users folder (actually just a couple users within the Users folder). The Users folder is 2.08 GB (according to the Finder). I exclude a bunch of things in Time Machine:
/Applications
/Library
/System
and
/Volumes/Hard Disk/Users/test1
/Volumes/Hard Disk/Users/NotCool
When I run Time Machine, the progress bar reads 4.84 GB of 37.75 GB!
How can that be? I'm just trying to back up (something that should be less than) 2.08 GB. My external drive has 58.19 GB (which will work in Time Machine), but if Time Machine thinks my Users folder is 37.75 GB, the external drive ain't gonna work for long as a Time Machine backup.
What's going on here? Again, I'm only trying to back up (less than) 2.08 GB.

William W. Higgins Jr. wrote:
My (external) backup drive has a 58 GB partition available for use as a Time Machine backup. When I initially selected that partition for use, Time Machine said there wasn't enough space available! I've been trying to pare down what gets backed up in order to: 1) get a backup of what's essential; and 2) allow Time Machine to backup changes over time. Obviously, the OS and Applications are not critical, as those can be reinstalled.
Yes, if necessary. But it's a complex, time-consuming, error-prone process. Depending on exactly what you do, here's roughly what you'd be looking at:
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• Install OSX from your Install disc.
• Set up a temporary User Account (different from any on your backups).
• Go through the set-up procedure for your Internet connection(s), power settings, and other system-wide settings and preferences.
• Download and install the "combo" update, to get back to your current version of OSX.
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• Find the websites for all downloaded 3rd-party apps, download and install them. Re-enter any purchase keys.
• Restore whatever data you saved, via +Migration Assistant.+
• Re-enter all your Users' preferences and settings, including email accounts: account info, passwords, server names, etc. (if you didn’t save them).
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Get Info/Finder says my /private folder is 3 GB.
See the green box in [OSX Log Files|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Logs.html].
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Hard drives are quite inexpensive these days; please consider getting one that's at least 2-3 times the size of your internal HD (plus any other partitions you'd like to back up). When (not if) your internal HD fails, or something else awful happens to your Mac, you can restore the OSX partition in one process, to the exact condition it was in at the time of any backup you select, even if that's a different version of OSX; and data-only volumes in one (different) process each.
In Time Machine, I excluded the other partition on the external drive that has the partition holding my Time Machine backup.
If there are other (HFS+) partitions on your internal HD, Time Machine will back them up too, unless you specifically exclude them.
1. Old Laptop (1.67 GB; external drive 1-partition 1)
2. Time Machine Backup (40.03 GB; external drive 1-partition 2)
3. /Applications (5.04 GB)
4. /Volumes/Hard Disk/Users/NotCool (61 KB)
5. /Library (2.5 GB)
6. System Files and Applications (10.86 GB)
7. /Volumes/Hard Disk/Users/test1 (37 KB)
8. /Volumes/Hard Disk/Users (2.14 GB)
1-7 was the first group that I excluded coincident with my original post. Estimated size of backup was 37.75 GB. I just added number 8 to see if the eliminating one of the references to the thing I really do want to back up reduced the backup size appreciably, and it did not. Time Machine still estimates the size of the backup is over 38 GB.
You're missing /private, although as you say, that's only 3 GB.
On the exclusions page, after clicking the plus sign, click the +Show invisible items+ box; there are several other hidden folders, but none should be of much size.
This is such a hassle, of course, because Time Machine is meant to back up your entire system, so it's geared to let you select a few things to omit, not back up only a few items.
You might check the hidden /Volumes folder; it won't show up that way for some reason, but if you select +Go > Go to Folder+ via a Finder window's menubar and type /Volumes in the prompt, you'll see it. It should contain only aliases, but on occasion a problem will cause OSX to create an actual folder there, and write data to it. You may have something quite large lurking there.

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