I presume time machine does incremental backups. I run it monthly for the past couple of years. Would it make sense to delete the backups and then run a new and complete backup? This would exclude all that data deleted through the years.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
There’s really no need for that. Time Machine will delete older back ups as needed to free up space. It does recursive back ups, but diminishes the frequency for the older ones (ie keeps hourly week, weekly for year, then monthly for as many years as you have space).
There’s really no need for that. Time Machine will delete older back ups as needed to free up space. It does recursive back ups, but diminishes the frequency for the older ones (ie keeps hourly week, weekly for year, then monthly for as many years as you have space).
Thanks, My thought is that a recent complete backup may result in a quicker recovery than having separate backups to meld
It’s likely not going to make a noticeable difference to do that. Except if you want to recover one of those deleted files that you would render truly deleted by erasing and replacing the TM backup.
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