what to do when external drive is full
My IMac is almost full. It has 240 out of 250Gb being used.
My external hard drive has two partitions:
1st partition (810 out of 831GB are being used) for Timemachine backups
2nd partition (80 out of 100GB are being used) as Bootdisk
Since both partitions on external drive is almost full, whenever I backup with TimeMachine, it says it deleted
an older version to make room for latest backup.
Question: If I buy another external harddrive, say a 2GB, do I :
-Copy files from current external drive to new one, and if so how do I go about doing that?
-Just put current external drive on shelf and just start using the new external drive? And if so, will
Time Machine get confused if, in the future, I try to reconnect the older external drive to recover a file?
-Other options?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)