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  • macOS BIg Sur v11.1's TM likes to do huge back ups to the new USB3 Seag

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 8 19:32:58 2021
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system

    Hello.

    I started a brand new Time Machine (1 partition is using encrypted APFS for TM; other 2 are for exFAT for now) back up late last night. I started its first one that took a long time (almost 400 GB of datas out of 2 TB). After it was done, I unmounted and then disconnected.

    I reconnected about 30 minutes ago to do another manual back up, and noticed it was doing a long back up! What the heck? I thought it is supposed to do incremental back ups like the old macOS (e.g., Mojave v10.14.6 and earlier)'s TMs. Did Big Sur's TM change something?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)
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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to Ant on Sat Jan 9 18:42:53 2021
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-01-09, Ant <[email protected]> wrote:
    Hello.

    I started a brand new Time Machine (1 partition is using encrypted
    APFS for TM; other 2 are for exFAT for now) back up late last night. I started its first one that took a long time (almost 400 GB of datas
    out of 2 TB). After it was done, I unmounted and then disconnected.

    I reconnected about 30 minutes ago to do another manual back up, and
    noticed it was doing a long back up!

    ..."Long backup" doesn't necessarily indicate a problem (other than your impatience).

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