On Dec 14, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote:

> On 14 Dec 2008, at 22:03, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>> I launched Bootcamp .. and after 3 attempts of partitioning and
>> RESTORING, arrived at a 49 GIG "partition" for Vista with the
>> remaining Gigs for Mac OS X Leopard.
>
>
> Boot Camp turns your single-partition disk into a two partition disk.
> To do this, it has to shuffle files on the disk to get them to fit
> into the reduced size. Imagine you're defragmenting a disk and the
> files are all over the place. You need to copy them into a contiguous
> block.
>
> I'm not surprised your files are registering as new files as opposed
> to being the same files as they have been recreated as opposed to
> merely copied.

I am (surprised), and FWIW I've never seen this behavior - simply  
moving files around the physical platters, but with no logical  
changes, shouldn't trigger TM to re-backup these files (it shouldn't  
consider them as new *or* changed - certainly the filesizes and  
checksums are the same, the time stamps and other fs metadata are the  
same, the paths are the same, etc.)

In any case, I've resized partitions without TM caring.

This would be as if running a disk defrag would force a complete TM  
update... that, too, would not be normal.

I think something else is up Kevin - have you looked at the TM log  
entries, it's pretty explicit about what it's doing, so you should be  
able to see exactly what this chunk of data is.

-R

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