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Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine

From Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine
Date 2015-04-13 13:56 +0000
Organization Miskatonic U
Message-ID <slrnminipn.g0.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)
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In message <mge5um$i1c$1@dont-email.me> 
  Király <me@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> 1. Create a file. 
>> 2. Run Time Machine manually.
>> 3. Delete the file after TM completes
>> 4. repeat every day for a week.
>> 5. Wait 32 days.
>> 
>> All seven files will still be in Time Machine.

> You are simply wrong about that, Lewis.

That is how it worked when I tested it back in... oh, 2009.

> Only the file that was in the 
> hourly TM backup that was retained as the daily would have been saved 

No, because EVERY snapshot is a full backup.

> (usually the first backup of the day.) And if you were lucky enough to 
> have had the above files retained in your daily backup every day, only 
> the daily backup retained as the weekly would have been saved. So at 
> best, you have only one of the above seven files after 32 days. More 
> likely, you have none of them.

Feel free to test it.

-- 
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings
don't expect them to be.

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What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-10 11:14 -0400
  Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-04-10 12:09 -0400
  Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-10 12:09 -0400
    Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-10 12:23 -0400
      Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-10 13:00 -0400
  Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-10 12:23 -0400
  Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-04-10 09:47 -0700
    Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2015-04-11 02:38 +0100
      Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-10 22:06 -0400
        Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2015-04-13 00:40 +0100
      Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-11 11:45 +0000
        Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-12 03:20 +0000
          Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-12 05:00 +0000
            Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-12 15:14 +0000
              Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-12 16:00 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-12 16:19 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2015-04-13 00:43 +0100
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-13 13:56 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-13 10:10 -0400
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-13 21:33 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Király <ggrandish@gmail.com> - 2015-04-13 15:18 -0700
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-13 21:40 -0400
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-04-13 18:49 -0700
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-14 01:56 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-04-14 00:31 -0700
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-14 02:43 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-14 02:02 -0400
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-14 06:19 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-14 02:42 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-14 05:28 +0000
                Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-19 16:55 +1200

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