Ugh. Okay, my apologies. Need more coffee this morning. Thanks the the helpful link. TM is a bit crazier than I knew. I had the implicit understanding that it would retain all backups until space became limited, and only then to begin deleting older backups. But it seems it wants to be ‘proactive’ or some such. Whatever. Guess I can live with that. -Carl
> On May 16, 2015, at 11:14 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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] >> <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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