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Re: [OM] Backup - a cautionary tale

Subject: Re: [OM] Backup - a cautionary tale
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 10:08:04 -0500
Time Machine recently informed me that my drive was full, and that it would 
begin deleting the oldest files in order to add the newest. Since the 
notification, no issues, as because the oldest are quite old (by computing 
standards) I don't see an issue. But then I haven't had to recover anything of 
late, either. I'm assuming it's working properly.

--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal

On Nov 8, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Andrew Fildes 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. 

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