[iStudent 2003]

My MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz has a 120GB hard drive, and I am using about 62GB of space. I am also using VMware Fusion with two virtual machines (one for XP and one for Vista) that totals about 18.9GB. In Time Machine's system preference's panel I've set the do not backup option to not backup the Virtual Machine folder. Time Machine says that the total includes 44.0GB, so I connect my external drive, and begin to backup and Time Machine says that its copying over 62GB of data. So I stop the backup, then I go back to the system preference's panel and I click on the virtual machine images themselves (not just the virtual machines folder). Then I tell time machine to backup, and guess what...it still says that is copying over 62GB of data...arggg!

Here's a video I made about my Time Machine issues.

[Art Vandelay]

It's a glitch. It isn't actually backing up everything. I noticed the same thing on mine. I had mine set to not back up 8GB out of 16GB of data. When the progress bar got half way, it stopped and the backup was complete.

[iStudent 2003]

Thanks Art, I thought i was going crazy when this kept happening.