Thanks, Barry!
Open system preferences/time machine.
The icon should be the Time Machine icon in blue.
Then I see this:
What you posted is the generic firewire icon....
I meant the icon that was displayed on the desktop when the drive
was switched on (mounted). In the past (on my old Mac) it was always yellow,
now (yesterday it was blue during the 12 hours backup) - today yellow again.
I guess this has some meaning. But which?
You might want to download the Time Machine Buddy widget
to see if Time Machine is making backups.
TMP reports:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/MyBook/Backups.backupdb
Detected system migration from: /Volumes/MyBook/Backups.backupdb/home’s iMac/2010-07-21-035328/Macintosh HD
Backup content size: 226.1 GB excluded items size: 3.6 GB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 268.27 GB requested (including padding), 928.63 GB available
Copied 7.6 GB of 222.6 GB, 32391 of 809378 items
Copied 13.4 GB of 222.6 GB, 55920 of 809378 items
Copied 15.1 GB of 222.6 GB, 86634 of 809378 items
Copied 21.8 GB of 222.6 GB, 204816 of 809378 items
Copied 35.2 GB of 222.6 GB, 216436 of 809378 items
Copied 64.2 GB of 222.6 GB, 225114 of 809378 items
Copied 90.2 GB of 222.6 GB, 227487 of 809378 items
Copied 133.1 GB of 222.6 GB, 229858 of 809378 items
Copied 175.9 GB of 222.6 GB, 231789 of 809378 items
Copied 208.4 GB of 222.6 GB, 233224 of 809378 items
Copied 218.7 GB of 222.6 GB, 247036 of 809378 items
Copied 247038 files (219.1 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
I just wonder about the icon's color and the long backup time...