Q: time machine question

If you delete files that are backed up to Time Machine that makes them candidates for deletion from the Time Machine backup.

Time Machine is a backup application and not an archival application.

I would suggest that you get another disk and move your files to it. Then your can set up Time Machine to backup both the internal and new external disk drive.

Allan

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A backup is ANOTHER copy. If your internal drive fails, you have the backup copy. If the backup drive fails, you have the internal drive.

When you only have one copy of a file, then you will lose it if the storage device fails/catches fire/gets stolen etc.

While what you say is true, you are missing a very important point which is that if the copy is made with Time Machine and the original is removed then Time Machine can remove the copy from the backup because it is not needed for the recovery.

Backup applications are never a good way to store data if the original copy is to be removed. They all will do this. Hence my waring to Tdyberra that his plan is not a good one. It will cause him to lost data.

Allan