Just bought a new Macbook Pro over the weekend, and over night I tried a Time Machine Backup via ethernet cable to an empty partition on a hard drive attached to my Airport Extreme. In the morning, I checked and everything had gone smoothly without error messages. My hard drive has 160 GB of data. When I checked the "sparse bundle" backup file I saw it was several gigs less (I can't remember how much less, but right now, a few more backups later it is up to 155 GB).
I checked the system log in Console, and saw several messages of the following variety: "backing up 15 GB out of 135 GB," "backing up 30GB out of 135 GB." I can't recall the exact language, and I can no longer find entries from yesterday on the log, but the just was that the computer seemed from the beginning to attempt to backup only 135 GB rather than the full 160. At the end, there was a message the backup had successfully completed.
I haven't excluded any files from that backup so that's not the issue either.
I called tech support, and they helped for a while until they told me Air Disk is not supported for Time Machine. I was told however that the sparse bundle is a compressed file.
Any insights into this? Is this how my backup is supposed to look or is something going wrong?
Many thanks in advance!
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