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Any way to see what Time Machine did?
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JazzCatDRP
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Nov 15, 2007, 03:34 AM
 
Is there any way to see a log of what exactly Time Machine backed up and when? It's sucked up a lot of disk space in the last day, and for the life of me I can't figure out what I'm changing.
     
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Nov 15, 2007, 03:37 AM
 
Since you can directly access Time Machine's archive from the Finder, I suppose you could go to it, sort by date modified and go from there.

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Nov 15, 2007, 05:16 AM
 
Your system.log will tell you what TM is doing and when. It won't give you a detailed list of copied files, but it will tell you how much it copied at a certain time step. Look for entries with /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd
     
   
 
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