James Pond died last year. http://www.beckerfamilyfuneral.com/obituary.asp?PageNum_Results=2&did=13012 It’s unknown how much longer his site, http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html, will stay up. Someone with web resources might want to contact his family and get permission to mirror it.
On 19 Jan 2014, at 01:59 , Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > Usually, this message comes up when you are making the INITIAL backup from a > particular machine, and there is not enough space on the drive to hold it. > In this situation, obviously, Time Machine has nothing it can cull off the > drive to make room. > > There are two causes for this. > > One is that the drive has been used to backup other machines, and Time > Machine won't cull their backups to fit yours. > > The second is that TIme Machine is UNDER THE IMPRESSION that this is the > first backup for your machine, even when it isn't, and that the files already > on the drive belong to some "other machine," as above. This can happen if > you switch from direct-attached backup to network-based backup or vice-versa. > It can also happen because Time Machine just flat gets confused. > > Given that Time Machine is complaining to you that it suddenly has to make a > 300GB backup, I'm pretty confident it's under the impression that it is doing > an initial backup. > > There's a guy named Pondini that has written a whole website full of tips > about how to un-confuse Time Machine in these cases. A web search will bring > it up. > > On Jan 18, 2014, at 9:05 PM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> 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 >> >> But Time Machine is supposed to delete old files to make room for new. >> The Time Machine panel says: "The oldest backups are deleted when your disk >> becomes full". >> >> Is this an issue with the size of the most recent backups? In any case, the >> point of Time Machine is to avoid manual management of backups. >> >> Thoughts on how to solve this? >> >> Thanks, >> Kevin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
