When I bought my Mac, I perused the Mac website about TM, shock and horror! The comments on the Time machine, by the hundred condemned it without reservation. It would appear to have a most dodgy power supply, that when it dies (18-24 months) also fries the bloody disk.
Needless to say, I got the WD book thingy solution. Jim On 19 October 2010 12:44, Steven Knowles <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm about to watch time fly and throw TC out the nearest window. > > I got over all of my previously whinged about error messages by one of two > solutions, I don't know which one ultimately provided the fix, but erased > data entirely, and disconnected all users (Airport Utility > Manual Setup > > Disks > Disconnect All Users). The backed up everything from scratch, the > major downside being loss of all historical backups. > > The backups from scratch seemed to work. However now, not every time but > intermittently, I get ... > > *"Time Machine could not complete the backup. > > This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 169.72GB > but only 122.2MB are available. > > Time machine needs work space ... blah blah blah"* > > TM waits for me to click OK. Then, if I 'Backup now' TM proceeds with a > backup in the usual manner, and keeps going until next time I get the > 'backup too large' message. > > > According to the TM Preferences window, there is about 500GB of available > space, which is about right after taking into account the two Macs I've > backed up. > > I've been putting up with the inaccurate 'backup too large' message, > however just now I had a need to go into TM and recover a previous version > of a file I've stuffed up. Disappointingly, I find that TM hasn't been > retaining old backup data. I have 'Now' backup, and that's it. No historical > backups to wade through. I assume this has something to do with the 'backup > too large' problem. > > > The problem I'm having is with my MBP. I've checked TM on the other > machine, an iMac, backing up to this TC. No problem. Retention of historical > backups appear to be taking place for the iMac. All machines running latest > OSX. > > > Any suggestions? > > > Cheers, Steven > > > ------------------------------ > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- Jim Duffield 0405583977 Skype: oldozsapper * **"Wolf, Wellington, Shaka [Zulu], Lawrence, Monash...not only displayed a general absence of authoritarian traits but also showed a lively regard for the prime responsibility of the commander: conservation of his force and concern for the psychological and physical welfare of his troops." Prof Norman Dixon, RE, MBE - 'On the Psychology of Military Incompetence', p. 275 * -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
