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

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Davoud:
> > But it appears not to be working. TM says it can't backup because the
> > disk is too full. Based on the quote in the title, I expected it would
> > delete old backups to make room and go about its business.

David Empson:
> To clarify, there are two possible scenarios and I'm not sure which one
> you are encountering.
> 
> (a) If you are trying to back up a new computer...

Not the case.

> Note that some instances of computer/drive replacement

Not the case.

> (b) If nothing out of the ordinary has happened

That's the case, as far as I know.

> and TM has just reached
> the point where the backup disk is full, then it should be able to work
> as advertised, by deleting the oldest backup (or several old backups) of
> this computer to make room for the next backup.

That's my thinking. Simple enough, so I thought. I didn't understand
Mr. Margolin's explanation at all. It has been working all along.

> If there has been a significant change on the computer, such as adding a
> new large drive or lots of files on an existing drive

Not the case.

TM just quit working one day. April 24, to be specific.

I think that I'll erase the TM volume and turn it into a SuperDuper
backup volume. I've already got one of those for this machine; one more
can't hurt.

Thanks for taking time to reply.

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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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