Time Machine-to the exclusion of directories

I'm backup my iMac SSD drive (500 GB) on a 3T OSX to format drive.  I also use a directory on this 3T USB as a secondary drive in my favorites (Finder).  What I find is that Time Machine takes about 3-4 DAYS to run a backup.  It takes a particularly long time to complete the process of 'cleaning up' after the backup (which apparently does not get completed if broken.)

When I "Get Info" to the Backups.backupdg directory that it takes several hours to calculate the size of this folder (~1.5T), while "Get Info" is almost instantaneous on other 4 or 5 t formatted (NTSC) or another OS x 2 t formatted the disk.

I do this so I can backup the entire disk 3T a cloud or off site backup.

If I can exclude the Time Machine backup of itself, I suspect the backup can be done in less than an hour. Is there a way to do this in Time Machine or must it backs up the entire drive?  If the latter, I'll apply for improvement for Time Machine!

joshfromalameda wrote:

If I can exclude the Time Machine itself, backup

That confuses me. Time Machine is unable to save himself.

I also use a directory on this 3T USB as a secondary drive in my favorites (Finder).

If you back up the content that is stored on the backup volume, Time Machine will not work properly.

I think there is something on your Time Machine configuration, I don't understand. Even if your iMac contained 500 GB of content source, the initial backup to a drive connected locally can take a few hours. Subsequent incremental (hours) will take only a few minutes.

How this backup disk is connected? USB, FireWire, Thunderbolt...?

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