On 2014, Jan 18, at 8:05 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
I have a 2T drive that has been backing up my MPro flawlessly for a
year or so. Now I'm getting this message:
The backup disk needs 292.42 GB for the backup but only 154.24 GB
are available. Select a larger backup disk or make the backup
smaller by excluding files.
Latest successful backup: January 7, 2014
If you have a large amount of stuff on your disk that has changed, or
that time machine thinks has changed, it will want to copy them.
Time machine must keep the last backup, intact. So it can't get rid of
everything. When it gives this message, it has tried to delete
everything except the most recent backup.
So what can you do?
First, try to figure out what Time Machine thinks has changed, and
then do a backup with those excluded. If so, it will backup the
"stable" stuff, and then your next backup can delete the earlier, now
out of date stuff.
If that doesn't work, you might just do a full restart -- have disk
utility format the drive, and let time machine start over from scratch.
Now, what can cause this? An OS reinstall might be around 40 GB of
change. You have at least 250 GB -- and 11 days since the last backup.
So what have you done in the last two weeks?
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