How do I limit the amount of space Time Machine uses?
Right, so the drive I was using for Time Machine had a most lovely volume failure. Somehow, I managed to fix it. The drive itself is fine but I find this all out after I buy a Drobo to replace it with (plenty of other of reasons for buying it, so it's OK).
Anyway, I've transitioned all of my files onto the Drobo and now want to use part of it for Time Machine. However, there's a snag. There are only two ways I know to do this:
1. Partition part of the drive and tell Time Machine to use that. Would work except the guys behind the Drobo specifically say "Don't use your Drobo with Disk Utility. It'll just mess thing sup." So partitioning is out of the question.
2. Time Tamer, a handy little script that does some magic and gives me a Sparse Bundle to use for Time Machine that is twice the size of my internal drive. That would work great. Except I only want it to be 1 TB instead of 2 TBs. I never even come close to filling the drive itself and the last Time Machine backup I had was only 1 TB and I had yet to even fill that after... Oh... Six months or so.
I'm sure there's a way for me to do number two manually but I have no idea how. I'd really apprecaite it if someone could point me in the right direction. Google isn't helping.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), iMac11,3
