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Limit size of Time Machine backups

I have just installed OSX server on my small network. I am using it as the destination for Time Machine Backups. My question is how do I prevent Time Machine over time using up all my server space for incremental backups? Can I impose a quota? Won't sparce images just continue to expand forever? When I was using external drives the partition size limited the expansion but on a server what happens?

thanks

Mark

MacMini, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Mac OSX server

Posted on Dec 12, 2010 2:56 AM

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Limit size of Time Machine backups

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