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Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine

From Alan Baker <email@domain.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine
Date 2015-04-10 09:47 -0700
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On 2015-04-10 15:14:52 +0000, Kurt Ullman said:

> Storms coming through yesterday and I wanted to turn off the computer
> and disconnect it from the electricity in case of lightening strike. I
> was getting ready to shut it down and I saw that TM said it was cleaning
> up. Anything untoward happens if I interupt that part of the back up?

Time Machine only keeps:

Hourly data for the preceding 24 hours.

Daily data for the last month

Weekly data for all previous months.

So with each backup, it needs to remove some files.

If you interrupt the "Cleaning up" stage, that won't happen until the 
next time it backs up.

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What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-10 11:14 -0400
  Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-04-10 12:09 -0400
  Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-10 12:09 -0400
    Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-10 12:23 -0400
      Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-10 13:00 -0400
  Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-10 12:23 -0400
  Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-04-10 09:47 -0700
    Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2015-04-11 02:38 +0100
      Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-10 22:06 -0400
        Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2015-04-13 00:40 +0100
      Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-11 11:45 +0000
        Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-12 03:20 +0000
          Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-12 05:00 +0000
            Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-12 15:14 +0000
              Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-12 16:00 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-12 16:19 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2015-04-13 00:43 +0100
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-13 13:56 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-13 10:10 -0400
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-13 21:33 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Király <ggrandish@gmail.com> - 2015-04-13 15:18 -0700
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-13 21:40 -0400
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-04-13 18:49 -0700
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-14 01:56 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-04-14 00:31 -0700
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-14 02:43 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-14 02:02 -0400
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-14 06:19 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-14 02:42 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-14 05:28 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-19 16:55 +1200

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