Hi Severin, Logical or not, were they able to complete another backup? If they get the same message again, the disk really is too full.
Time Machine could not complete the backup Time Machine could not delete enough backups to make room for a new one. This happens most often when Time Machine needs to do a very large backup (or a full one), but can't make enough room, and the Time Machine disk/partition isn't well over twice the size of the data it's backing-up. The message includes the amount of space that the backup requires; note that it's the estimated size of the data to be backed up plus 20% (for workspace). Cheers, Ronni On 24/01/2011, at 1:31 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: >> Thanks, Ronni, that does not seem to be quite the logical way for things to >> happen. >> Severin >> >> >> On 24/01/2011, at 12:21 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >> >>> >>> On 24/01/2011, at 12:09 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: >>> >>>> Can someone give me a pointer on this one ( not for me). >>>> Time Machine comes up with "Time Machine Error This backup is too large >>>> for the backup volume. The backup requires 3.3GB but only 1.2GB are >>>> available. To select a larger volume or make the backup smaller by >>>> excluding file open System Preferences ........" >>>> Warn when old backups are deleted is checked but does not come up. >>> >>> Hi Severin, >>> >>> Is this on a Leopard computer? >>> >>> This backup is too large (Leopard) >>> >>> If you have the Warn when old backups are deleted option checked in Time >>> Machine Preferences > Options, your backup will fail with this message. >>> >>> Time Machine will not delete old backups while this option is checked. This >>> doesn't necessarily indicate a problem; un-check the Warn . . . option in >>> Time Machine Preferences, and try another backup. >>> >>> Time Machine will delete one or more of your oldest backups to make room >>> for the new one. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 >>> 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm >>> >>> OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard >>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> -- 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]>
