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OS 10.6, TM going to external disk. I don't know why I did that, it was dumb, but how can I undo it and reset whatever marker to the last "real" backup?
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Are you falling for the siren song of a single backup system? No matter how easy TM is, it has a flaw that if you have an issue like this, where is your backup to your backup?
Bob
Read the back and forth at https://discussions.apple.com/message/22050523#22050523
But again, while unpopular I am still encountering folk that are learning the backup lesson first hand. It doesn't have to be learned that way.
Bob
Thanks for your concern, but this is not my only backup, but it is one of them and I would like it to work properly. I read the link you sent but it seems to concern a different problem than I am having. That person wants a full backup; I do not. I simply want it to do an incremental (normal for TM) backup starting from the last backup (Nov. 27), not from the moment before I stupidly reselected the same disk (this morning). That seems to have reset a control somewhere, so now it thinks it is just backing up stuff modified since this morning!
Eleanor
Since it's only a backup, a fresh start sounds like the ticket.
Let's hope there's more from our Apple guru.
Bob
What error messages are you getting?
P
No error. Just that, instead of 2 hours and many many files, it finds 10 files and is done in 3 minutes!
Eleanor
Given that it backs up every hour, how many files actually change in that period of time?
Seems that many, many files would be a stretch for 1 hour, unless, of course, you were very, very, busy.
P
I don't do automatic backups, I trigger each backup manually, and the last (before my goof) was about 10 days ago. So, there should be lots of files to copy.
Okay what? I'm still stuck with a not-working-properly backup! Has no one every heard of this happening before? Does anyone know how to reverse a "re-select"? Oh, dear....!
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