Right now I use Time Machine to manage my backups. I only backup my computer about once a week, but Time Machine is getting bloated. It’s saving copies of things it doesn’t need to save, including multiple copies of the same file. It’s just taking up too much room on my HDD. Any alternatives?

Right now I use Time Machine to manage my backups. I only backup my computer about once a week, but Time Machine is getting bloated. It’s saving copies of things it doesn’t need to save, including multiple copies of the same file. It’s just taking up too much room on my HDD.

Any alternatives?

Right now I use Time Machine to manage my backups. I only backup my computer about once a week, but Time Machine is getting bloated. It’s saving copies of things it doesn’t need to save, including multiple copies of the same file. It’s just taking up too much room on my HDD. Any alternatives?

Right now I use Time Machine to manage my backups. I only backup my computer about once a week, but Time Machine is getting bloated. It’s saving copies of things it doesn’t need to save, including multiple copies of the same file. It’s just taking up too much room on my HDD.

Any alternatives?

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  1. exalen answered: You can also select which folders you want time machine to backup. Tho, system wide backup is good in case you need to recover someday.
  2. travs answered: you can also select files/folders as of a certain date and delete all backups from that point and earlier.
  3. coreyharris answered: Time machine is meant to be redundant, Most good back-ups will be redundant as well. Check the HDD manufacture to see if they have software.
  4. darrenbrockes answered: You could delete the database and start over. And you can set directories for it not to backup.
  5. miiitch posted this

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