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Old 07-09-2009, 11:31 AM
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Time Machine asks about my drive after every backup

Been using SD for a long time. I recently got a new computer and new set of backup drives. Now after every backup I'm presented with the Time Machine popup "Do you want to use BootableBackup to back up with Time Machine?". I hit cancel every morning. I've verified that Time Machine is off via System Preferences. I've turned it on and back off. I've rebooted. Why can't I get rid of this daily popup? This didn't happen with my previous setup. The most significant change is I'm now using portable drives powered by the USB connection. And they have GUID partition table.

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Seagate FreeAgent Go (possibly ran SDDiskTool to set GUID)

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Old 07-09-2009, 11:41 AM
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Did you schedule an erase-then-copy backup, rather than a Smart Update? This is the kind of thing that TM does when a new drive appears...
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Old 07-09-2009, 11:58 AM
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Ah, that must be it. Smart Update is not selected. I'll post back tomorrow if that doesn't fix it.

BTW: I may have turned off Smart Update in my previous setup because when the drive was nearly full it acted as though it was copying new files before deleting old files, and therefore didn't have enough room to backup even though the src/dest drives were the same size.

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Old 07-09-2009, 12:13 PM
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Remember that if you're dealing with a scheduled copy here, you need to delete and recreate the schedule.
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Old 07-11-2009, 02:27 AM
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Yep, that fixed it. Thanks, Dave. Still strange that it's not possible (at least through OS X System Preferences) to totally disable Time Machine from asking about new drives.

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Old 07-11-2009, 07:10 AM
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It's quite annoying. We sort of found a way to do it during development, but it was so over the top and complicated we decided it wasn't worth it...
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