After full TM restore to new HD, TM doesn't show older backups and won't run
Also will not perform a backup again because it says the backup is too large for the backup disk?
I can deal with backing up to a new external HD, but how can I find older file backups from this particular external drive?
Are they gone?
(the current external is partitioned. an older bootable backup that has a capacity of 250.39 GB with 171.96 available
and a TM partition that has a capacity of 749.34GB with 363.88GB available.)
I tried to change the partition in disk utility but i could only drag down the non-TM partition. It wouldn't let me add room to the TM partition.
Is this happening because the new internal HDD is larger than the previous HD?
Current capacity of internal is 999.86 with 606.3GB available.
There seems to be plenty of room to fit the above.
What's the deal?
The size of the partition for Time Machine depends on the size and amount on data on your hard drive. The general rule of thumb is Time Machine should have 2-4 times the amount of space as the data on your hard drive. There shouldn't be any problems with a partitioned drive. I'd also consider having 2 backups as hard drives do fail. Either another Time Machine backup or a clone and Time Machine. Since you are using Snow Leopard, a clone would probably be easier than constantly switching drives in System Preferences.
Clone - Carbon Copy Cloner (Often recommended as it has more features than some others)
Clone – Data Backup
Clone – Deja Vu
Clone - SuperDuper
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