I wish it were. Your link doesn’t mention expired backups at all. I think TM is misbehaving. Under no circumstances did I want those backups deleted. TM had no reason to do so, other than it being a bug. -Carl
> On May 16, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > All explained here: > > http://pondini.org/TM/12.html <http://pondini.org/TM/12.html> > > > On May 16, 2015, at 11:10 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >>> On May 16, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> OS X 10.10.3 >>> >>> Why does TimeMachine think it needs to delete old backups? My external 3GB >>> drive used for TM backups is nearly empty, with 2.7GB free. In TM >>> Preferences it says “The oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes >>> full”, yet after the last backup it deleted 2 ‘expired’ backups. What is >>> going on? >>> >>> May 16 10:45:57 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Starting post-backup thinning >>> May 16 10:45:57 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on Recovery HD on device >>> disk0s3 >>> May 16 10:46:09 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine >>> Drive/Backups.backupdb/2015-03-12-151308 (137.9 MB) >>> May 16 10:46:15 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine >>> Drive/Backups.backupdb/2015-04-09-000413 (28.8 MB) >>> May 16 10:46:15 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Post-backup thinning complete: 2 >>> expired backups removed >>> May 16 10:46:15 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Backup completed successfully. >>> >>> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree >>> %iused Mounted on >>> /dev/disk2s2 2929930664 179088592 2750842072 7% 22386072 343855259 >>> 6% /Volumes/Time Machine Drive >>> >> >> Slight clarification to the above. Obviously I meant 3TB drive, and 2.7TB >> free. >> >> Here’s a more complete system.log entry set. You can see that the ‘expired’ >> backups are one 1 and 2 months old >> >> May 16 10:42:05 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Starting automatic backup >> May 16 10:42:14 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Backing up to /dev/disk2s2: >> /Volumes/Time Machine Drive/Backups.backupdb >> May 16 10:42:38 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Will copy (41.6 MB) from Macintosh >> HD >> May 16 10:42:38 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Found 318 files (41.6 MB) needing >> backup >> May 16 10:42:38 com.apple.backupd[1014]: 4.93 GB required (including >> padding), 2.82 TB available >> May 16 10:45:41 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Copied 477 items (41.4 MB) from >> volume Macintosh HD. Linked 1386. >> May 16 10:45:54 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Created new backup: >> 2015-05-16-104554 >> May 16 10:45:57 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Starting post-backup thinning >> May 16 10:46:09 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine >> Drive/Backups.backupdb/2015-03-12-151308 (137.9 MB) >> May 16 10:46:15 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine >> Drive/Backups.backupdb/2015-04-09-000413 (28.8 MB) >> May 16 10:46:15 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Post-backup thinning complete: 2 >> expired backups removed >> May 16 10:46:15 com.apple.backupd[1014]: Backup completed successfully. >> >> -Carl >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >
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