Buy a 500GB backup drive. Cost of a 500GB bare drive these days should be about $100, I would think. Not worth the time trying to figure out what's not working on the 150. Fred Holmes
At 10:32 AM 4/9/2008, Harvey wrote: >Here's an interesting Time Machine (TM) problem. I had been >successfully using TM since 3/1 or so. TM works by first making a >copy of everything on your computer's hard drive; then it makes >regular incremental backups. When those incremental backups fill the >backup/TM drive, it erases the oldest backup to make way for the >newest. I reached that limit around 4/1. My computer's drive has >files occupying 121 GB; my TM drive capacity is 150 GB. Therefore >about 29 GB of the TM drive consists of incremental backups. So far >so good. > >Then yesterday I got an error message that the latest incremental >backup had failed because the TM drive did not have sufficient room. >The only way this could conceivably happen is if my incremental backup >was 30 GB. It wasn't. I can only surmise that TM isn't erasing the >oldest incremental backups. But that isn't supposed to happen. > >Any insights would be appreciated. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
