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Re: [OM] Backup - a cautionary tale

Subject: Re: [OM] Backup - a cautionary tale
From: Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 16:03:13 -0600
I am not.


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Siddiq Siddiqui-Ali <
muhammad.siddiqui-ali@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> > www.soultheft.com
> >
> > Author/Publisher:
> > The SLR Compendium:
> > revised edition -
> > http://blur.by/19Hb8or
> > The TLR Compendium
> > http://blur.by/1dQb0sG
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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