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So this isn't solved and it's even more bizarre than at first it appears. It had to delete much of the legacy backup information, and then once I'd left it to 'fill in the gaps' of the data it had pruned (it's deleted around 18 months of history), it's now doing iterative backups again successfully onto that disk. As it happens, and digging into the logs around TM, it looks like the issue was caused by an automatic clearing of the older backups on that disk, on migration to High Sierra due to the changes made filling the disk up and iTunes also seemingly touching lots of files with the latest version (the logs showed it backed up pretty much the iTunes library in it's entirety - my iTunes match also renewed this week and I noticed it had, for whatever reason, re-indexed my music library and re-uploaded some files, so I wonder if that was related?). I seem to remember there being a certification much like 'iPhone compatible' which was around Time Machine, and I also seem to remember WD achieving that (like the Promise device). With the strapline (in Apple's own website) - Other Features: Data Encryption, Kensington Port, Sleep Mode, Time Machine compatible.

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' My Cloud drive is compatible with Apple Time Machine for Mac users.'Īnd it's worked for 4 years without issue until the move to High Sierra.Īnd also, Apple sell this ' Promise 4Tb Apollo Personal Cloud Storage' NAS in the Apple Store in the UK

Is that an official Apple line? You might want to tell Western Digital that. Just seems strange it's only 1 disk out of 3 it's getting stuck with - I know iTunes changes a bit in the background (listening to music / downloading Apple Music / downloading songs etc) but it seems like it just can't cope with the changes that are happening iteratively and wants to back up the entire library every time a single file changes? Has anyone else has this wacky experience with Time Machine? Should I just cut my losses (I did a backup to an external USB3 4Tb disk and it completed overnight successfully - this is just the external backup to the M圜loud), format the M圜loud and get it to do a completely new backup? (I've iStat Menus configured - it shows that it's just constantly hitting the MyBookStudio disk and nothing else - and the backup size matches the space used on that disk)Īnd it seems to be confused - if I check how much it's backed up vs the total on the Time Machine icon on the taskbar, it shows it going up and down - so I'll see it at 950Gb complete one minute, and then it'll show 784Gb complete.

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Since then, every time Time Machine tries to do a backup, it's done FULL backups of everything on one of the external disks - so it's done iterative backups on the Fusion Drive and the WD4Tb disk, but my iTunes disk (the MyBookStudio) gets a repeated full backup. Until last week when I upgraded to High Sierra - that took an hour or so and went smoothly.

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Each iteration is usually a few hundred Mb - maybe a couple of Gb if I've downloaded some music or a movie.įor the last couple of years I've moved from the Macbook Pro to the Mac Mini to this iMac and through different versions of MacOS/OSx, the Time Machine backups have just worked - on each restore leap between hardware I've had to do a full backup, but then it iterates post that. It backs up to a WD M圜loud NAS which is 4Tb.

In Time Machine I block out some stuff from backing up (Time Machine doesn't play well with VMWare Fusion images, so I exclude those) so a full backup is 2.6Tb I finally have my lightroom stuff on the internal disk. Then there's some VM's and storage on the other disk. My iTunes library is on the MyBookStudio disk in it's entirety. Machine is an iMac 5k with a 1Tb Fusion Drive which has 500Gb of data on it, and I have two externally connected 4Tb USB3 Drives (a WD 4Tb with 500Gb of data on it, and a WD MyBookStudio 4Tb with 1.5Tb of data on it - both formatted MacOS Extended (Journalled) ).