time machine gives wrong size in lion 10.7.4
The hard drive has a total size of 250 gb but time machine gives wrong size of 750 gb??
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Where do you see that?
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I see the size when the time machine calculates the size needed and after completion of the backup.
Is it backing up any other drives?
That would seem to be the logical conclusion...I have 3 partitions on the same drive..One of them is Lion 10.7.4 that is the only one I need backed up..why is it backing up other partitions?
Because you haven't excluded them. If you want to do that, open the TM preference pane and click Options... It backs up all volumes on internal storage (not external) by default.
I excluded all the other partitions but the backup size has only gone down from 735gb to 642 gb. It is still a lot more than 250 gb of Lion partition.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Select "system.log" from the file list. Enter "backupd" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. Post the messages from the last backup, beginning with "Starting standard backup."
Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Do not post many repetitions of the same message.
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time machine gives wrong size in lion 10.7.4