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Re: [OM] Backup - a cautionary tale

Subject: Re: [OM] Backup - a cautionary tale
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 08:56:17 +1100
Stupidly I assumed that it backed up your system and content and then did 
incremental back-ups - that is, simply recorded any changes since the original 
back-up in a dated file so that it could reconstruct the situation. After all, 
the name implies that you can go back to where you were at some point in the 
past, to recover a deleted file, for instance. Total weekly back-ups when 
you've got over half a terrabyte on board are just bloody useless! As I said, 
it jammed up on me inside a month when it didn't have room to do the new one. 
Andrew Fildes
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On 09/11/2013, at 1:25 AM, Siddiq Siddiqui-Ali wrote:

> Time Machine will fill, to capacity, any drive you give it access to. Once 
> it's full, it starts deleting the oldest one, and so on. You can run into 
> issues when there are large breaks in time between backups, and the new 
> backup requires more space than what's available, and there aren't enough 
> backups for it to safely delete the oldest one.

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