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| From | John <Man@the.keyboard> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: What happens if I interrupt Cleaning Up part of time machine |
| Organization | Less than none. |
| Message-ID | <fm0mial35esbht8fo367jd6lbk2asrtfvj@4ax.com> (permalink) |
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| Date | 2015-04-13 00:43 +0100 |
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:19:34 +0000 (UTC), me@home.spamsucks.ca
(Király) 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. Only the file that was in the
>hourly TM backup that was retained as the daily would have been saved
>(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.
>
>Time Machine backups are snapshots of your system made at that time. If
>you have a TM backup made two months ago, e.g. Feb 1, 8:00am, it is an
>exact copy of what was on your system at that time. It doesn't contain
>any files that weren't on your system at that time. If you had a file on
>your Mac only on Jan 31 or only on Feb 2, it is gone.
I think I'm sorry I asked.
:)
Thanks people. Now, I'm *really* not sure.
Fortunately, I tend to keep everything so it doesn't matter.
J.
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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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