A year worth of backups gone...??
Last night I got the following message when my computer tried to back up:
+"Time Machine could not complete the backup.+
+This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 237.64 GB but only 111.95 GB are available.+
+Time machine needs work space on the backup disk, in addition to the space required to store backups. Open Time Machine preferences to select a larger backup disk or make the backup smaller by excluding files."+
When I opened Time Machine, I found that all but the most recent backup are gone. Is there any way to recover my year or more of backups, or should I just start from scratch? And how can I prevent this from happening again?
The only unusual thing I did before the problem arose was to change the permissions on one of the disks that Time Machine backs up (not the booting disk). I set it to ignore ownership. This was because my boyfriend was unable to read and write to that disk via his account. Could this have caused the problem?
Thanks!
cleast wrote:
The only unusual thing I did before the problem arose was to change the permissions on one of the disks that Time Machine backs up (not the booting disk). I set it to ignore ownership. This was because my boyfriend was unable to read and write to that disk via his account. Could this have caused the problem?
Yes, that was very likely it. Ignoring ownership will appear to change the permissions of everything on the whole drive, and so TM will want to back it all up all over again. If it needs to delete all old backups to make it fit, then it will. Not much you can do about it now.
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