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Re: [OM] Backup - a cautionary tale

Subject: Re: [OM] Backup - a cautionary tale
From: Siddiq Siddiqui-Ali <muhammad.siddiqui-ali@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 22:01:58 +0000
By any chance you running any sort of VM within Mac OS?

On Nov 8, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> The TLR Compendium
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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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