Time machine filling drive on first back up.
I recently got a new MacBook Pro and migrated over from my old MacBook Pro. I am running Big Sur 11.5.2 and am trying to setup time machine again.
I select the external disk that has 1Tb of space on it and is empty. I select the disk in Time Machine and enable encryption, it formats the disk is set to APFS. When running the backup, it says there is 1TB available and that the amount of data it is backing up is 205.87GB. It runs for hours then eventually stops and says that it failed to complete as there is no space. I check in Disk Utility and sure enough the 1TB disk is completely full. How is that even possible? I have run through this a number of times and used different external drives and same issue. I am trying again now without encryption to see if that somehow is causing the issue but seriously how can it take 205Gb of data and fill a 1TB drive?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 11.5