Now it's been unencrypting for 10 hours and is less than 1/4 the way though.at this rate it will be going for two more days.
HOW MUCH IS TIME MACHINE FOR MAC FULL
The darn thing is now unencrypting the full backup, even though it was not set to encrypt it and it had already previously decrypted the partial 100 MB backup! This is making me batty. The backup seemed to go normally with the full 250 gigs.until. Double checked again that backup encryption was off, and removed the exclusions. I thought I had finally figured it out now that it was decrypted. But it still wanted to decrypt the drive.but with only 100 megs it went fast. After making sure that encryption was off, I lastly excluded everything but my shared folder (which has nothing much in it).
Since it still wanted to encrypt the TM backup, I deselected the drive and then re-enabled it for TM after formatting yet again (so that's like three times now). Never a hiccup with it until this incident.) (Incidentally, this previously was an encrypted drive I used for TM with my previous MacBook Pro. But the darn Time Machine kept wanting to encrypt the backup even when not checked and so I had to terminate again and do the entire process above over with reformatting as an encrypted drive. Ran a first aid check and no errors, so I don't think I did physical damage by unplugging it with the lid closed during encryption above. Reformatting was kind of a bear though.after multiple failures, I had to finally do it unencrypted first, then encrypted. If anything, unplugging might corrupt data, but nothing physical on the drive itself.I hope! Probably should have unmounted the drive by force quitting TM, but I instead closed the lid and thought I could pull the plug on it.the OS provides no 'nice' way of stopping the encryption.
(I have always formatted the drive as encrypted and not the backup but, now much to my regret, I did the reverse here).Įncrypting data of course takes forever, and after waiting 12 hours to be only 1/3 through 250 gigs, I called it quits to restart it all. I mistakenly did not format the drive as encrypted, but in a senior moment selected to "encrypt backup" from TM instead. I know this thread is a few months old, but maybe some of you are still watching it.ĭevice is a new 2017 15" MacBook Pro, and after days of getting it all set up I wanted to do a TM backup. Here's a slightly different twist on the encryption issue, which maybe someone can provide some insight to.
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