I've got several directories that I don't care if I lose, either are just working temp folders, require manual backups or can easily download again.
Currently I'm excluding ~100GB, of which 25GB might totally change in 24 hrs. These are mMainly virtual machines as whilst developing and testing lost of files are created, modified and deleted and I only care the about the source/config/test files are backed up. I exclude the following types: BBC iPlayer Cache (can re-download, don't require long term backup) iTunes PodCasts (can re-download, don't require long term backup) Dropbox (backup handled by dropbox) Downloads (forces me to organise downloads) Virtual Machines (Prefer manual backups as restoring to a running vm state has cause me issues before) Won't fix the backup drive issue, but might reduce the total backup size, but your the only person who knows what directories you care about. John On 30 May 2012 10:52, Steve Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Interesting point, as it happens the scratch is the second partition and I am > seeing exactly what you describe. > > I mat back up the contents of the scratch disk, delete that partition then > start again. > > Steve. > > On 30 May 2012, at 10:48, John Patrick wrote: > >> Is the scratch partition the 1st or 2nd partition. >> >> The reason I ask is because I've had experiences where I reduced the >> 1st partition but the 2nd partition would still not increase as it >> would only extend from the end. i.e. you can't extend it into the >> space before the current partition, but it will extend into space >> after the current partition. >> >> Not sure if that was issue with Mac, that disk or something else. So >> might be red herring. >> >> John >> >> On 30 May 2012 10:41, Steve Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Toby, >>> >>> Tried reducing the scratch partition as there is not much on there, that was >>> easy, but disk utility will not let me increase the size of the back up >>> volume. >>> >>> Beats me, >>> >>> Steve. >>> >>> On 30 May 2012, at 10:34, Toby Leighton wrote: >>> >>> You can in a fiddly kind of way, You'll have to make one smaller first, and >>> then the other one bigger. >>> >>> You are limited to a degree by how much data is saved in each partition. If >>> the partitions are empty you can set them to be almost any size, if they are >>> full of data then the partition boundarys have to be "around" the data. >>> >>> On 30 May 2012 10:21, Steve Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I am running Snow Leopard and have run out of space on my stand alone hard >>>> drive for running time machine back ups. >>>> >>>> I have a 1TB drive which was partitioned roughly 50/50 one partition for >>>> back ups, the other as a scratch disk. >>>> >>>> However, since increasing the size of my iMac drive a few moths ago and >>>> adding more software, time machine is now telling me I need over 500 GB in >>>> order to back up. >>>> >>>> I have been into disk utility to look at changing the size of the >>>> partitions and while I can make either partition smaller, it will not let >>>> me >>>> increase the size of a partition. >>>> >>>> Q: Is there a way to do this? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Steve. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>>> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. 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