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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Time Machine backup frequency
Date: 18 Jun 2018 23:07:24 GMT
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On 2018-06-18, Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> wrote:
> The docs say this runs once an hour and backs up any files that have 
> changed.  That isn't happening on my machine.  I don't know when it 
> started but today I noticed I am getting two backups per hour always 
> within a couple of minutes.  For example, I have one at 4:08PM and 
> another at 4:10PM and that has been the case all day.  Older backups 
> seem to conform to the docs.

Where exactly are you seeing these dates?

> Clearly this isn't critical.  The older stuff is okay.  However, I am 
> curious about what is happening.

What does this terminal command show?:

   tmutil destinationinfo

How about this one?:

   tmutil listbackups

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