How big are your data sets (how full with how much data are your disks)? Is the one at home using a local TM disk or a TM disk on your network? Is the data set composed of LOTS of little files?
On Mar 7, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: > Hi, > > On my Mac Pro at home, Time Machine runs for about 30 minutes of each hour, > even when I have not created any new files. I also have a Mac Pro at work > and it does NOT exhibit this behavior. Both are running the latest version > of Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Does anyone have an idea about why Time Machine is > running so much on one of these? I expect Time Machine to run for a short > period (maybe a minute or two), even without many files changing, since I > assume it still has to search for possible changes, but 25-30 minutes seems > really excessive when nothing much has changed. Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
