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JedNZ

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Dec 6, 2015
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I have a nasty situation where Time Machine does a full back each time I reboot my cMP. That's 2.23TB of data which takes several hours.

I have tried the following:
  • Turned Time Machine on in System Preference and removed the TM hard drive.
  • Removed all the TM settings and Preference files
  • Reformatted the TM hard drive.

No matter what I do, as soon as I reboot/restart (cold or warm) it wants to scrap my TM backup completely and start again. Also does it after I reboot from Recovery HD, and from Win10.

The pain is that all my archived TM files dating back to my last reboot get lost. Luckily I backup my boot/apps SSD and my User data on a Fusion Drive (Samsung M.2 blade fusioned with 2TB spinner) every month or so, but surely this should not be happening.

I have searched MacRumors forums and Google but can't find anything specifically that will fix my problem.

cMP 2009 4,1>5,1 – 10.13.6 – MP51.0089.B00 - specs as per sig.
 
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