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Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full."

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full."
Date 2014-04-26 20:04 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <260420142004208391%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References <260420140059398443%star@sky.net> <1lkrd3n.11dmsa251ywt0N%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>

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In article <1lkrd3n.11dmsa251ywt0N%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>, David Empson
<dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

> Note that some instances of computer/drive replacement might result in
> Time Machine thinking it needs to start a new backup rather than
> continuing an existing one. (I encountered this once when I was running
> somewhere around 10.5/10.6, but not when I had a similar situation
> around the 10.8/10.9 timeframe, so Apple may have improved the logic in
> later OS X versions.)

easily done using the command line utility tmutil in lion and later.

it's possible to do it in earlier systems but it's a pain in the ass.

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Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-04-26 00:59 -0400
  Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-04-26 01:21 -0400
  Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2014-04-26 17:19 -0500
  Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-04-27 11:15 +1200
    Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-04-27 00:01 +0000
    Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-26 20:04 -0400
    Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-04-27 21:26 -0400
  Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-28 16:40 -0400

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