HT201250: Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
Learn about Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
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Jul 21, 2016 1:55 AM in response to pbenjiby Esquared,Normally only new items are added to the backup, and there should be only Backups.backupd item on the disk. If new ones are created everytime, there's something wrong – possibly with the disk you are backupping to.
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Jul 21, 2016 2:48 AM in response to Esquaredby pbenji,There is in fact only one file called backups.backupdb but inside this file are 24 dates when backups were made.
The whole backups.backupdb is 655 GB. That's a lot!
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Jul 21, 2016 4:12 AM in response to pbenjiby Esquared,Ah, now it's clear. Please ignore anything you see in that folder. The items within it are just 'aliases' or 'symlinks'. As I said only new items are added. Only when the disk gets full, Time Machine will start deleting the oldest items in the backup.
To summarize: what you are seeing is absolutely normal.