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Back-Up Question? - flightdelayedagain - 03-02-2017
Maybe this has been discussed before but on one of my Mac's, I have a 240 GB SSD used for only the OS and Apps. I back that drive up every few weeks using CCC to a standard external drive partition of 250 GB.
My last back up was 2 weeks ago and what's strange is the back-up has about 10 GB's less than the SSD. Would the reason have something to do with the difference between SSD's and standard HD's?
TIA
Re: Back-Up Question? - GGD - 03-02-2017
One thing that I can think of is that it doesn't backup the "sleepimage" file that is used to save RAM contents during sleep.
How much RAM do you have?
Re: Back-Up Question? - Lew Zealand - 03-02-2017
sleepimage
VM swapfile(s)
Both are located in /var/vm/
For instance, I have sleepimage disabled on my Mini but I have a small vm file in there.
Re: Back-Up Question? - flightdelayedagain - 03-02-2017
Thanks - I have 8 GB on this Mac