Thanks Ronni. I'm going shopping- for a 3TB TC. Regards
Pete > On 13 Dec 2013, at 7:26 pm, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > 1. I would definitely recommend you purchase a 3TB Time Capsule for Time > Machine to backup 5 MacBooks. I use a 3TB Time Capsule 802.11n (4th > Generation) to backup ONE (1) MacBook Pro. > Time Machine needs a lot of free space to work efficiently. Problems occur > when there is not enough free space on the disk. > <http://store.apple.com/au/product/ME182X/A/airport-time-capsule-3tb> > > 2. Re: your wife's doubling the size of her TM backup "Sparsebundle" would > have happened by NOT selecting "Reuse Backup" when setting up for the first > backup of new machine. > I would delete your wife's "sparsebundle" from the Time Capsule Disk. > I seem to remember sending you details some time back how to delete > sparsebundle from Time Capsule. > > 3. Re: Macbook 4.1 model is (13-inch, late 2008) 2.4GHz and 2GB memory > I would suggest you install more memory... It can take 6.0 GB. > If this is the MB you have (or going to have) its Maximum OS is Mac OS X > 10.7.5 > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > >> On 13 Dec 2013, at 4:51 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Muggers, I have a 1TB Time Capsule which has the backup Sparsebundle >> files of the 4 Macbooks (my Wife's plus 3 kids) currently in my house. I >> have bought a MacBook Pro for middle child for school next year and as a >> result I can have his hand-me-down (hand-me-up??) Black Macbook (not such a >> bad thing as it has a 120GB SSD). Anyway, the TC is nearing it's 1TB >> capacity limit as it is, but once I set up the 5th Macbook for me and >> associated TC backup, it will exceed the capacity of the TC. >> >> My question is, if I attach an external drive to the TC USB port, can I >> select that external drive as the destination of my 'hand-me-down' Macbook >> backup OR should I be replacing my TC with a 2TB or 3TB unit? Maybe the >> external drive needs to be dedicated to Time Machine Backups instead of >> other data as well, which would be fine. >> >> Compounding the above problem, my wife's recent (earlier this year) upgrade >> to a 13" MBP resulted somehow in a peculiar doubling of the size of the >> sparsebundle file for her MBP - not sure how it happened. In any case, I am >> inclined to make a clone of the MBP, then blow away the sparesebundle file, >> and set up a new TM backup and so reduce it back to the ~230GB of her >> current data instead of the current 533GB sparesebundle file for a 500GB >> MBP!! Is this intended action the best way to fix the oversize sparsebundle >> issue I have for my wife's MBP? I'm not worried about any "lost" data as the >> cloning in it's current state will be good enough given the data content. >> >> I am also interested in knowing what OSX I can get the hand-me-down black >> Macbook upgraded to. It is a Macbook 4.1 model, currently using OSX 10.6.8, >> 2.4GHz and 2GB memory. If I have to stay with Snow Leopard, thats fine, for >> my purposes it will be ok till I get a 13" Retina MBP early next year. Is >> Mavericks or ML beyond this machines capability? >> >> Apologies for containing a number of questions in this but for context, >> these issues are not able to be completely separated into discrete subjects. >> >> Regards >> >> >> Pete >> -- 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> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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