I have a 27 iMac.
I just bought a a 500 GB external hard disk, and hooked it up with Time Machine.
There is only 300 GB used on my computer, but after only one month, the Time Machine is about filled and starting to delete the oldest files.
What happened? How can I precent this?
Thanks.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
A 500 MB Time Machine drive is next to nothing to be honest. At a minimum you should have a drive the size of your internal HD. To be honest it sound like TM is operating perfectly if you add or change data frequently. You can go into TM preferences and choose what you DON'T want it to backup. Another suggestion is using TimeMachineEditor to set how frequently it backs up. For example I have mine set to backup 4x per day instead of 24x per day.
If you haven't already I'd recommend reading both:
Roger
I don't think TM is happy with you swapping files manually, but I can't say for sure. Even if it's OK, you'll have to start from your DVD and restore your HD, that takes time - a lot of it - which you never seem to have, when you have a melt down.
The free version of SuperDuper will back up everything, including system files.
The paid for (cheap) will do incremental back ups, which are much faster, which again will encourage you to do it more often.
To me it's a no brainer, but then I suppose I'm a back-up-aholic
on the other hand - I seldom cry
In case you have a boot camp partition, you'll need Winclone for that one, it's free!
Their website has disappeared, but the app can still be found on cnet
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