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Speaking of Time Machines
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Sarcany wrote:
If you have 800GB available on a Time Machine backup drive, it sholdn't be bugging you to exclude items.
Well I thought so too. But there you go. It have the little red exclamation point icon and everything.

Sarcany wrote: Do you have a Parallels or VMware or other virtual machine? If so then consider excluding the virtual drive file.
I moved my Parallels VMs to an external awhile back since I found out about the Parallels bug that won't allow you to reclaim space.

Sarcany wrote: Some apps including old versions of MS Office (Entourage and Outlook) can make large database files that you might reasonably exclude if you have IMAP email.
I try to keep that junk tidy. And I've moved ALL my mail to the server.

Sarcany wrote: You may have a very large archive of iOS backups in the ~/Library/Application Support/MobileConfig folder which can be excluded.
I don't think I do since I rarely back up to the computer.

At any rate. I'm not sure what happened but I came back to my desk and it was backing up. No idea what happened. Just looking now and it says I have 660gb available of 12tb. So we'll see what happens tomorrow when I reconnect the drive at work.
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Speaking of Time Machines - by bazookaman - 02-10-2021, 05:44 PM
Re: Speaking of Time Machines - by rz - 02-10-2021, 06:44 PM
Re: Speaking of Time Machines - by Sarcany - 02-11-2021, 12:29 AM
Re: Speaking of Time Machines - by bazookaman - 02-11-2021, 01:21 AM
Re: Speaking of Time Machines - by bazookaman - 02-11-2021, 07:12 PM

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