Cheers John, I am looking at what to exclude next, thanks for the suggestions, (I had not thought about dropbox!) Unfortunately I have huge iPhoto and iTunes libraries, and a growing number of iMovie projects, these three are by far my largest libraries. I think I am going to have to get this suff onto a Drobo or something similar in the not to distant future.
Steve. On 30 May 2012, at 11:37, John Patrick wrote: > 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. > 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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