Time Machine has no more room
I have a hand sized Iomega external hardrive where I use Time Machine for and it is 250GB. I never keep it on all the time, I just put it on to back up the system every week or so. The last time I tried to do a backup, there wasnt any space left for it.
Should I erase some of the previous back-ups or get a new hard drive?
Hi joeytrom
It does sound like you need a larger External HD for Time Machine.
If everything you have backed up to Time Machine is still on your Internal HD, then I see no harm in just erasing it and starting over.
If not then you should buy a larger External HD and transfer the current backups to the new drive and continue on, see item # 18 written by pondini in the Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018
Dennis
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As your backup drive begins to fill up to its capacity, Time Machine intelligently deletes the oldest backups to make room for newer ones (and will alert you if the "Notify after old backups are deleted" option is selected in Time Machine preferences).
If your backup disk is filling up often causing your oldest available backups to be erased sooner than you might want, consider the following options:
Use an additional drives for your backups or transfer your backups to a new, larger drive as detailed above. When you connect a new drive for the first time, use Time Machine preferences to select the drive. Tip: You can also browse the original backup drive for past backups by using "Browse other Time Machine Disks"--to see this choice, hold the Option key then click the Time Machine menu in the Finder (to see the menu, "Show Time Machine status in the menu bar" must be selected in Time Machine preferences.
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As john noted, eventually that external is probably not going to be big enough, but it certainly is for now. The HD just needs enough capacity to cover the amount of data on your internal HD, not the internal HD's total capacity.
Format/partition the external as follows and you should be set to go:
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2. Open Disk Utility on the MBP.
3. Select the external HD in the left pane.
4. Click on the Erase tab.
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NOTE: if you want to zero the HD (which I always think is a good idea, but does take time), click on Security Options, click the button for Zero Out Data, click OK. The larger the HD, the longer this will take, in some cases several hours.
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7. Click the Partition tab.
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9. Click on the Options button (located underneath the Volume Scheme pane) and select GUID.
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Time Machine has worked fine for me fore many months, the backup disk being a 1 TB external firewire drive.
But now Time Machine will not make a backup. I keep getting the same error message: "Time Machine Error. This backup is too large for the backup volume. The backup requires 88.7 GB but only 58.5 are available."
I thought Time Machine just deleted the oldest files on the drive to make the room it needs for continued backups. So why isn't it doing that now? How do I get it to go back to doing that?
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TomTom Baker1 wrote:
My Time Machine backup disk is an external 1 TB firewire drive with only one partition, dedicated entirely to TM, and it backs up the two internal drives in my G5. One of these two internal drives has about 600 GB of data on it and the other about 400, so together they would be enough to fill the external Time Machine backup drive.
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Now I have discovered that there is something wrong with the Time Machine backups as well. I decided to go into TM to see just how far back in time the backups go, but it will only allow me to go back as far as yesterday. It acts as though there are no backups older than yesterday afternoon.
That's probably correct; your TM disk is too small, and there's just not room for more. Here's the situation: A full backup has nearly filled the disk; something fairly large has been added or changed, and there just isn't room for it, in addition to the full backup.
The 88.7 GB it's requesting means it's trying to back up about 74 GB (it adds 20% for workspace, etc., on the TM disk).
This is getting stranger all the time. At this point should I just give up trying to fix the situation, erase the backup drive, and start all over again?
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Get a larger drive, at least 2 TB.
Get an additional drive; use one for TM backups of one of your internal HDs, the other for a different app to back-up the other internal HD.
Exclude a lot of stuff from Time Machine (at least 300 GB).
Use a different app, such as CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, to back up your internals to separate partitions on the 1 TB drive. These will be exact copies only; no previous copies of things you've changed or deleted. -
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Hi everybody,
After upgrading to Lion 10.7.2 Time Machine has failed and won't mount the Time Machine drive.
I use a WD My Book Studio LX for my Time machine and also have a smaller WD My Book daisy chained through it in to the iMac with 2 partitions.
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Has anyone else experienced this or have any possible solutions for it?
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Here's the criteria they must meet: Disks that can be used with Time Machine. And be careful here: just because some 3rd-party hardware claims to support Time Machine doesn't necessarily mean that Apple supports it, or that it will work in all circumstances.
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with error message saying the backup file cannot mount or something like that.
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chown = changes ownership to...
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* Yes, I know I don't NEED to defrag, but even Apple recognizes that if you do a lot of video work, it's possible you might actually benefit from a defrag.Dean Thompson wrote:
I did something that I expected to cause a full backup and might require TM to do some cleanup. Time machine has started eating my old backups and has quite a healthy appetite. I'm quite afraid it's going to wipe out my entire backlog of backups.
So here's what I did:
- turned off TM
- defragmented my boot disk* by using SuperDuper to create a clone of my boot disk, reformat my boot disk, clone back to my boot disk
Any time you replace everything on a disk (or the disk itself), it's considered changed and will be backed-up in it's entirety. This even happens if you do a full system restore from TM backups: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338
The new backup will require as much space as the data on your internal HD, plus 20% for workspace.
At last count, my TM Disk had 452.87GB of 999.86GB. My boot disk is using 142.49GB free of 319.73GB. So, there would be room for a full backup even if my boot disk was completely full but it's not.
So the backup should require about 170 GB of free space.
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Time machine has become really slow lately
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2012-10-26 19:38:06,500 com.apple.backupd: Copied 23134 files (52.7 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-26 19:38:41,308 com.apple.backupd: 999.0 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-26 19:45:01,214 com.apple.backupd: Copied 20981 files (6.5 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-26 19:45:50,087 com.apple.backupd: Copied 21083 files (8.1 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-26 19:51:55,237 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-26 19:58:40,838 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-25-191604 (61.2 MB)
2012-10-26 19:58:40,838 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-26 19:58:41,394 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-26 20:30:15,853 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-26 20:30:15,866 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-26 20:30:59,623 com.apple.backupd: 1.07 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-26 20:36:41,357 com.apple.backupd: Copied 22677 files (82.2 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-26 20:36:45,700 com.apple.backupd: Copied 22783 files (85.4 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-26 20:37:11,965 com.apple.backupd: 1005.0 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-26 20:41:31,874 com.apple.backupd: Copied 17200 files (6.8 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-26 20:41:33,325 com.apple.backupd: Copied 17221 files (6.8 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-26 20:46:47,558 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-26 20:46:47,558 com.apple.backupd: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
2012-10-26 20:46:48,186 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-26 21:30:30,640 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-26 21:30:30,674 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-26 21:30:42,386 com.apple.backupd: 1010.8 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-26 21:30:54,277 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3123 files (11.3 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-26 21:30:54,859 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3144 files (11.3 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-26 21:30:55,094 com.apple.backupd: 1001.4 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
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2012-10-26 21:30:58,184 com.apple.backupd: Copied 309 files (3.8 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-26 21:30:58,871 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-26 21:30:58,871 com.apple.backupd: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
2012-10-26 21:30:58,936 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-26 22:30:15,707 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-26 22:30:15,724 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-26 22:30:34,848 com.apple.backupd: 1.02 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-26 22:30:48,657 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3705 files (38.5 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-26 22:30:48,988 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3726 files (38.5 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-26 22:30:49,253 com.apple.backupd: 996.9 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-26 22:30:49,770 com.apple.backupd: Copied 90 files (33 bytes) from volume System HD.
2012-10-26 22:30:50,150 com.apple.backupd: Copied 111 files (33 bytes) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-26 22:30:50,765 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-26 22:36:54,405 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-25-221858 (48.1 MB)
2012-10-26 22:36:54,405 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-26 22:36:55,093 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
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2012-10-26 23:30:15,629 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-26 23:30:38,714 com.apple.backupd: 1.00 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
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2012-10-26 23:30:57,106 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3280 files (22.9 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-26 23:30:57,209 com.apple.backupd: 996.9 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-26 23:30:59,132 com.apple.backupd: Copied 261 files (16 KB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-26 23:30:59,841 com.apple.backupd: Copied 282 files (16 KB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-26 23:31:00,516 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-26 23:37:12,293 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-25-232830 (53.6 MB)
2012-10-26 23:37:12,293 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-26 23:37:12,975 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-27 00:30:15,547 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-27 00:30:15,591 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-27 00:30:42,714 com.apple.backupd: 1012.8 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 00:30:58,838 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3069 files (12.9 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 00:30:59,307 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3090 files (12.9 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 00:30:59,476 com.apple.backupd: 997.5 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 00:31:01,716 com.apple.backupd: Copied 392 files (511 KB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 00:31:02,236 com.apple.backupd: Copied 413 files (511 KB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 00:31:03,033 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-27 00:35:01,776 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-09-27-121203 (143.2 MB)
2012-10-27 00:35:01,776 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-27 00:35:02,614 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-27 01:30:15,847 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-27 01:30:15,867 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-27 01:30:41,122 com.apple.backupd: 1.03 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 01:31:02,734 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3139 files (50.4 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 01:31:03,417 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3160 files (50.4 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 01:31:03,926 com.apple.backupd: 997.2 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 01:31:06,377 com.apple.backupd: Copied 956 files (238 KB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 01:31:06,668 com.apple.backupd: Copied 977 files (238 KB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 01:31:08,691 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-27 01:31:08,692 com.apple.backupd: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
2012-10-27 01:31:08,757 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-27 11:22:04,292 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-27 11:22:04,312 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-27 11:22:07,667 com.apple.backupd: 1.04 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 11:22:21,959 com.apple.backupd: Copied 2557 files (52.7 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 11:22:22,238 com.apple.backupd: Copied 2578 files (52.7 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 11:22:22,673 com.apple.backupd: 997.0 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 11:22:25,551 com.apple.backupd: Copied 936 files (74 KB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 11:22:25,794 com.apple.backupd: Copied 957 files (74 KB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 11:22:27,915 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
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2012-10-27 11:31:39,391 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-05-002018 (108.3 MB)
2012-10-27 11:31:39,391 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
2012-10-27 11:31:40,124 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-27 11:47:20,188 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-27 11:47:20,225 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-27 11:48:01,472 com.apple.backupd: 1.15 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 11:53:45,768 com.apple.backupd: Copied 22414 files (147.2 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 11:53:46,551 com.apple.backupd: Copied 22435 files (147.2 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 11:54:11,637 com.apple.backupd: 1.01 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 11:58:27,895 com.apple.backupd: Copied 17063 files (101.1 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 11:58:28,737 com.apple.backupd: Copied 17084 files (101.1 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 12:03:29,738 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-27 12:08:48,730 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-11-000842 (151.7 MB)
2012-10-27 12:08:48,730 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-27 12:08:49,446 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-27 12:47:20,465 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-27 12:47:20,481 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-27 12:48:10,251 com.apple.backupd: 1.13 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 12:53:58,776 com.apple.backupd: Copied 22827 files (128.7 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 12:54:02,964 com.apple.backupd: Copied 22923 files (131.2 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 12:54:36,185 com.apple.backupd: 1000.7 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 13:00:03,160 com.apple.backupd: Copied 21837 files (10.3 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 13:00:03,849 com.apple.backupd: Copied 21858 files (10.3 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 13:06:28,929 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-27 13:12:57,224 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-19-001425 (124.6 MB)
2012-10-27 13:12:57,224 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-27 13:12:57,942 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-27 13:47:34,859 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-27 13:47:34,900 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-27 13:48:04,455 com.apple.backupd: 1.02 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 13:48:23,702 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3222 files (38.5 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 13:48:24,129 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3243 files (38.5 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 13:48:24,408 com.apple.backupd: 997.0 MB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 13:48:26,324 com.apple.backupd: Copied 392 files (176 bytes) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 13:48:26,602 com.apple.backupd: Copied 413 files (176 bytes) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 13:48:27,744 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-27 13:55:02,021 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-25-001915 (164.5 MB)
2012-10-27 13:55:02,021 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-27 13:55:02,732 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-27 14:47:19,892 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-27 14:47:19,907 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-27 14:47:28,688 com.apple.backupd: 1.14 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 14:49:02,659 com.apple.backupd: Copied 2410 files (108.6 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 14:49:04,799 com.apple.backupd: Copied 2501 files (109.1 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 14:49:05,081 com.apple.backupd: 1.04 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 14:49:08,439 com.apple.backupd: Copied 984 files (1.3 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 14:49:08,729 com.apple.backupd: Copied 1005 files (1.3 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 14:49:11,287 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-27 14:55:51,590 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-26-143227 (53.9 MB)
2012-10-27 14:55:51,590 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-27 14:55:52,225 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-27 15:47:19,811 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-27 15:47:19,821 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-27 15:47:31,172 com.apple.backupd: 1.44 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 15:48:20,070 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3535 files (343.4 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 15:48:25,645 com.apple.backupd: Copied 3725 files (346.7 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 15:48:26,080 com.apple.backupd: 1.15 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 15:48:35,615 com.apple.backupd: Copied 1545 files (94.6 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 15:48:36,091 com.apple.backupd: Copied 1626 files (94.6 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 15:48:39,571 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-27 15:55:28,025 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-26-153015 (49.4 MB)
2012-10-27 15:55:28,025 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-27 15:55:29,351 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-27 18:30:41,454 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-27 18:30:41,466 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-27 18:31:36,523 com.apple.backupd: 1.22 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 18:37:34,394 com.apple.backupd: Copied 23095 files (133.2 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 18:37:44,575 com.apple.backupd: Copied 23684 files (155.5 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 18:38:14,029 com.apple.backupd: 1.05 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 18:43:52,899 com.apple.backupd: Copied 22561 files (51.2 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 18:43:53,918 com.apple.backupd: Copied 22582 files (51.2 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 18:50:13,929 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-27 18:56:34,516 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-26-133119 (113.0 MB)
2012-10-27 18:56:34,516 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-27 18:56:35,224 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-27 19:53:18,374 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-27 19:53:18,404 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-27 19:54:13,665 com.apple.backupd: 1.14 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 20:00:09,414 com.apple.backupd: Copied 23042 files (88.5 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 20:00:10,395 com.apple.backupd: Copied 23063 files (88.5 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 20:00:49,047 com.apple.backupd: 1.04 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-27 20:06:24,604 com.apple.backupd: Copied 21473 files (7.3 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-27 20:06:25,914 com.apple.backupd: Copied 21494 files (7.3 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-27 20:12:54,448 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-27 20:19:23,604 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-26-194550 (47.1 MB)
2012-10-27 20:19:23,605 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
2012-10-27 20:19:24,327 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-28 11:48:14,703 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-28 11:48:14,722 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-28 11:48:37,575 com.apple.backupd: 1.09 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-28 11:49:51,995 com.apple.backupd: Copied 6920 files (41.9 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-28 11:49:52,673 com.apple.backupd: Copied 6941 files (41.9 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-28 11:49:53,539 com.apple.backupd: 1.04 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-28 11:49:59,493 com.apple.backupd: Copied 2092 files (5.9 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-28 11:49:59,916 com.apple.backupd: Copied 2113 files (5.9 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-28 11:50:02,203 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-28 11:53:40,283 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-09-28-174306 (134.6 MB)
2012-10-28 11:54:07,999 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-27-003102 (11.7 MB)
2012-10-28 11:54:15,314 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-26-233059 (21.7 MB)
2012-10-28 11:54:24,087 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-26-223050 (38.6 MB)
2012-10-28 11:54:31,923 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-26-213058 (11.7 MB)
2012-10-28 11:54:31,923 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 5 expired backups removed
2012-10-28 11:54:33,203 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-28 12:03:09,983 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-28 12:03:10,080 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-28 12:04:22,222 com.apple.backupd: 1.16 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-28 12:09:37,907 com.apple.backupd: Copied 17151 files (105.3 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-28 12:09:40,692 com.apple.backupd: Copied 17197 files (105.3 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-28 12:10:22,894 com.apple.backupd: 1.05 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB available
2012-10-28 12:16:08,092 com.apple.backupd: Copied 21592 files (113.4 MB) from volume System HD.
2012-10-28 12:16:08,903 com.apple.backupd: Copied 21613 files (113.4 MB) from volume Data HD.
2012-10-28 12:20:52,914 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
2012-10-28 12:21:19,721 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-26-204134 (51.1 MB)
2012-10-28 12:27:53,979 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb/Kristian’s iMac/2012-10-26-190107 (62.0 MB)
2012-10-28 12:27:53,979 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
2012-10-28 12:27:54,563 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
2012-10-28 12:28:37,854 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
2012-10-28 12:28:37,862 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac Backup/Backups.backupdb
2012-10-28 12:29:14,836 com.apple.backupd: 1.16 GB required (including padding), 1.39 TB availableIf you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Post the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear.
Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — edit that out, too, but don’t remove the context. -
What items do you delete from backup on time machine to make more space available
What items do you delete from back up on time machine to make more space?
There's no need to do that unless Time Machine has reported a Disk Full alert. In this case you can:
1. Delete older entries using the Time Machine application to free up sufficient space.
2. Get a new and larger Time Machine backup drive to replace the old one.
3. Erase the backup drive and start over. -
Does backing up my hard drive to time machine gain me more space/speed on my iMac?
I have an iMac. here are the specs:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.30f1
Serial Number (system): QP921090ZE4
Hardware UUID: 20AE2D9A-DB71-54DF-95F7-DAEFEE167723
I have a TON of art/photos on this computer. I'm wondering if backing my hard drive up with time machine gains me more space and processing speed-or if it only slows my computer down? is it better to house my files on a seperate drive from the drive i am using for backing up with time machine?Just to add a little, Time Machine is not a storage drive. Backups on there are not in a form you can use as you would from your normal internal. If you delete your pics etc. after backup, they won't be backed up on subsequent runs, and will eventually be lost when the TM drive gets near full and starts deleting the oldest backups. Have a read of Pondini's TM articles; http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
To do what you want, you need another drive to which you can simply copy your pics etc and open from there while booted to your internal. (this is a basic storage drive)
The storage drive can then also be backed up to TM (provided the TM disc is big enough). -
My Time Machine has stopped working and now errors out everytime I try to re-connect ?
What is the error.. ??
We cannot help much without details.
Look at the pondini troubleshooting.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
The vast majority of issues are C12 or C17.. especially with ML.. which rather than fixing issues left over from Lion exacerbated them. -
Time Machine has left me in the past!
I recently had a mac genius re-install my OS due to poor performance and too many glitches to name them all. I was confident in my time machine back-ups since I could see the clock moving everyday on my tool bar. After my OS was re-installed, I connected to my external hard drive and can only see files from November. Nothing else. Am I just ******** or is there something I'm doing wrong? I have only had a few hiccups in my 10+ years using a mac but they have been huge ones. Does anyone out there have a solution to this or has it happened to anyone else? Time machine has left me in the past, November 07 to be exact and I need to be in May 08! Someone please help!!!!
Double-click the drive icon, then double click the "Backups.backupdb" folder. Double-click your old computer's name, and scroll down to the bottom, and look at the most recent date. That most recent date is the most recent TM has.
Good luck!
P.S. Welcome to Discussions! -
Time machine has created a new sparse bundle
I have booted my new Macbook from my time machine back up. Time machine has created a new sparse bundle and I cannot access the previous backups. Is there any way to make time machine to use the previous sparse bundle? Thanks, Karl
Use the old backups to continue backups or use them for migration etc..
If you have a new Mac then continuing to use the same backup is not recommended..
Info you can see here..
B5 and B6 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
I do not think it is good idea.. however you can access the old backup to get files if you need them.
See Q17 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
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