Sonoma backup always shows skipped

lmabrylewis wrote:

Not at all the problem. The backups show up when I go into the Time Machine. Before Sonoma, I could click on the icon and it would show status - either preparing, or backing up, or cleaning up, or the date and time of the last backup. Now it always says "skipping". I looked online and a lot of people are having similar problems with Time Machine on Sonoma. I was hoping someone at Apple would have a solution.

If you are having an issue and want to get beyond it

— erase, reformat, initialize the drive as new and start a new trouble free backup

Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support

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lmabrylewis wrote:

When I click the Backup icon on the tool bar to check the status of backups it always shows "skipping" instead of the last backup.

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Yeah, it's an 8 TB Seagate. I've realized that all the Time Machine functions seem to be working well. The only problem I see is that when I click on the TM icon on the upper right of my display, it always shows "Skipping...", even if TM is doing nothing. Otherwise, it's backing up hourly, and I can see recent changes I've made in folders. I think this problem goes away when I reboot, but then it returns after the first backup (so after an hour). Looking forward to a Sonoma update.

Did you get a helpful response from Apple Support? I'm seeing the exact same thing.