Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: TimS Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: My darn NAS... Date: 15 Jan 2021 11:25:21 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <610653159@f1.n770.z6840.fidonet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Om9UyrhDRIJnDh5OlQswlQO6BwSOwvOZtO01wXHPlnAGrORPg2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:j40gNeIv/P1ySn0GcG4PzmgINwo= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: Usenapp/0.98/l for MacOS - Full License Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.raspberry-pi:25932 On 14 Jan 2021 at 18:35:35 GMT, Chris Green wrote: > TimS wrote: >> I don't know whether Time Machine does this or not, or perhaps limits the >> number of hard links to any file and creates a new complete backup of teh file >> and starts again. I'm told that, in fact, TM does have this issue. >> On my main file machine I've set TM to use a second disk; it alternates >> between them, so this is some protection. >> > That's a rather neat idea, I might get my backup system to do it. I also discovered that TM can use any number of drives and uses them round-robin. If the next one is not mounted it just skips it. So I've added a third drive that was just kicking around. It's a USB SSD so easy to remove. -- Tim