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Hello,
Last year I bought an SSD because I was afraid to upgrade my system to Monterey, in case it would present problems, so I booted with the SSD drive.
Now I no longer use it, and have upgraded to Monterey, but since then, when I back up with Time Machine, it's backing up two volumes (?)
See attached screenshot. Does anyone have a fix?
Thanks in advance!
Best,
Christine
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.7
It's nearly certain TM is working properly and there is nothing to fix.
What you're seeing in that Finder representation of the TM backup drive is a list of restorable backups of volumes mounted at the time they were backed up. It doesn't mean it is backing up drives that are not mounted.
There is no point in using the Finder to inspect Time Machine backup drives. The information it shows won't make any sense.
It's working as intended. If you don't want it to back up the SSD, open the Time Machine pane of System Preferences, click on Options, and add it to the exclusion list.
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Thank you. I tried that, but the SSD drive isn't plugged in, so it doesn't show up. That's why I don't understand why it's backing up.
Ok thank you for your help!
Time Machine backup problem
