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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: macOS BIg Sur v11.1's TM likes to do huge back ups to the new USB3 Seagate 5 TB HDD?
Date: 9 Jan 2021 18:42:53 GMT
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On 2021-01-09, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I started a brand new Time Machine (1 partition is using encrypted
> APFS for TM; other 2 are for exFAT for now) back up late last night. I
> started its first one that took a long time (almost 400 GB of datas
> out of 2 TB). After it was done, I unmounted and then disconnected.
>
> I reconnected about 30 minutes ago to do another manual back up, and
> noticed it was doing a long back up!

..."Long backup" doesn't necessarily indicate a problem (other than your
impatience).

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