Hi Peter, I had forgotten that when I was using Time Machine to backup on my old 17-inch MacBook Pro I also used Timetracker to display the contents of Time Machine backups and found it very good. I think I stopped using Timetracker when I upgraded the OS and Timetracker wasn’t compatible.
Kind Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 16 Jun 2020, at 8:25 am, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > Hi Ronni, sorry for taking so long to respond to your kind note. Last night > (with "backupd" in the search window) I had a look and made sure "All > Messages" (top left) was selected and "Macbook Pro" was selected in the > devices panel. I see a range of line items in the main panel which provides > information which I cannot interpret what it is actually saying. It is in > 'computer speak' but notwithstanding that, with Timetracker, I have been able > to see exactly what content (and how many MB for each component part of it) > was included in these backups. > > So much stuff being backed up for seemingly no good reason, but then I am > sure it is only doing what it has been programmed to do. Invaluable to > recover from a HDD loss (which I have had once). > > Kind Regards > > > Peter Crisp > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > wamug@wamug.org.au > > To: > <wamug@wamug.org.au> > Cc: > > Sent: > Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:03:11 +0800 > Subject: > Re: Time Machine backup content > > > Hi Peter, > > Do you have “All Messages” selected under the log database in the left column? > > Kind Regards, > Ronni > > Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > > > On 10 Jun 2020, at 12:22 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > Thanks for that Ronni. I had a look in there using Console on my wifes MBP > (2011) and when I type in "backupd" i get a blank panel on the right side. > Does it depend on the selection on the left side panel? > > I also went looking for the application I was thinking of and I found it (on > my MBP). It is called TimeTracker. A third party app. I used it many years > ago from similar curiosities about huge backups happening with little or no > activity on the MBP. > > https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36691/timetracker > > I don't have this on my wifes MBP so when I get time I'll install and have a > look at the backup content report. > > > > Kind Regards > > > Peter Crisp > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > wamug@wamug.org.au > > To: > "WAMUG" <wamug@wamug.org.au> > Cc: > > Sent: > Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:53:54 +0800 > Subject: > Re: Time Machine backup content > > > Hi Peter, > > Everything that Time Machine does is logged to the system log, so it is > possible to get more detailed reports on its activities. > Open Console in Applications/Utilities > To find the activity for Time Machine, you only need to know that the Time > Machine process is called backupd. > Click in the search box at the top right of the window (or just press > Command-Option-F), then type backupd as you type, Console will filter the > results to only show those entries related to the backupd process. > > The filtered output results are shown in three columns and it’s the Message > column that’s most useful. The messages reveal how much data was backed up, > what older backups were removed, and other general information about the > backup run. > > Kind regards, > > Ronni > > > On 10 Jun 2020, at 9:32 am, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > Hi folks, I did a search in the WAMUG archives and couldn't find the thread > which shows how to interrogate the actual backed up content for each hourly > backup for TM. > > Reason I ask is that I am bringing my wifes TM backup up to date as it had > been manually stopped for a short period, then forgotten about (a few > months!!!) and now back in business. So yesterday I set it off again (used > the Ethernet connection as I knew it would be a large backup). She also had > clear out a LOT of photos off her iphone which meant it would be huge. So > yesterday it set off (75GB) and by this morning it was finished. I've been > monitoring it through this morning and I have seen subsequent hourly backups > SINCE completing successfully the 75GB backup and the subsequent hourly > backups have been 745MB and 220MB each. There was zero activity on the MBP > since waking it this morning. > > Why would there be subsequent backups of such size with no specific activity > on the keyboard. Obviously there is something being backed up and I'd like to > investigate. > > How do I do this? > > > > Kind Regards > > > Peter Crisp > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > > macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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