Azure backup VM - Need larger than 1TB disks - what to do ?

I am using Azure for backups and I notice the largest disk you can add is 1tb in size.
What do you do when you require larger than 1 tb partition ? Do people just add multiple disks and raid them?
Thanks in advance
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Whether asking nicely or demanding anything of the seller, consider that Apple binds the license to use the software on the system disk set to the Mac they came with. If the disks are separated from that Mac, in effect the license stays with the Mac, not the disks, so anyone using those disks with anything other than that Mac is in violation of the licensing terms.
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I have a 500 GB hard drive and a 1TB Time Capsule running on a MacBook Pro. It was all working well until the MacBook went in for a repair a week or so ago. Since then, TC will not perform a backup; instead, it says the backup is too large for the disk

Since having my MacBook Pro repaired (for a video problem) Time Capsule returns the following message: "This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 428.08 GB but only 192.14 GB are available."
I notice that there is also a new sparse bundle.
Since TC has my ONLY backup (going back about 4 years) I am reluctant to wipe it and start over fresh as I am afraid of losing files.
Is there a way of dealing with this?
I am using Snow Leopard 10.6.8

The repair shop likely replaced a major circuit board on your MacBook Pro, so Time Machine thinks that you have a "new" computer and it wants to make a new complete backup of your Mac.
You are going to have to make a decision to either add another new Time Capsule....or USB drive to your existing Time Capsule....and in effect start over with a new backup of your Mac and then move forward again.
For "most" users, I think this is probably the best plan because you preserve all your old backups in case you need them at some point, and you start over again with a new Time Capsule so you have plenty of room for years of new backups.
Or, as you have mentioned, you have the option of erasing the Time Capsule drive and starting all over again. The upside is that you start over and have plenty of room for new backups. The downside is that you lose years of backups.
Another option....trying to manually delete old backups individually....is tricky business....and very time consuming. To get an idea of what is involved here, study this FAQ by Pondini, our resident Time Capsule and Time Machine expert on the Community Support area. In particular, study the pink box.
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/12.html
Once you look through this, I think you may agree that this type of surgery is not for the faint of heart. I would suggest that you consider this only if one of the other options just cannot work for you.

Time Machine says my initial backup is way larger than it actually is.

I am doing an initial backup to Time Machine. I have 810.5 GB worth of data (according to the "options" tab of Time Machine System Prefs). However, when I go to do my first backup, I get a message saying that I have 972.8 GB of data which is too much to fit on my 1TB Time Capsule.
Any ideas re: why Time Machine is calculating 162.3 GB more than I actually have?

Gregory McBride wrote:
I am doing an initial backup to Time Machine. I have 810.5 GB worth of data (according to the "options" tab of Time Machine System Prefs). However, when I go to do my first backup, I get a message saying that I have 972.8 GB of data which is too much to fit on my 1TB Time Capsule.
Any ideas re: why Time Machine is calculating 162.3 GB more than I actually have?
If you download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget via this link, it will show the messages from your backup attempt.
The critical message will be, roughly, "No pre-backup thinning needed: 972.8 GB requested (including padding), xxx GB available."
The "padding" is about 20% that TM adds to the actual amount of data, for workspace it will need on the backup volume.
A general "rule of thumb" is, TM needs 2 to 3 times as much space as the data it's backing-up.
But this actually varies greatly, depending on how you use your Mac. If you frequently add/update lots of large files, then even 3 times may not be enough. If you're a light user, 1.5 times might do.
But yours is just barely larger.
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This question is often asked and a lot of people still think they can get away with a single disk or maybe 2 disks for a video editing system.
It would be relatively easy to tell you that a SATA disk is half duplex, so traffic can go only one way at a time, either reading or writing, and the other traffic has to wait until the first data streams have completed, before the next direction gets full attention, but that is rather technical and may not appeal to many, so let me put it to you in another way.
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The test is supposed to demonstrate "the impact of disk setup on export times" yet there are no changes or variations in any of the bench configurations?
What do you mean? Your major complaint about PPBM5 was the changes or variations in configurations, something taken out of the picture.
Why not test the most common configurations (2- or 3-drive RAID0) and vary the setup for each, e.g. break a 2-drive RAID0 and see how that impacts export times?
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Also really curious about the alleged evil of SATA's single-duplex operation. Any proof yet?
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application or the Oracle sql developer. The error
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ThayalanThat's interesting! I had no problems with opening files 32767MB in size on the very same 32 bit RH EL 4.0. How did you conclude that your file is too large, based on the error message which reads "Linux Error: 13: Permission denied"? Have you tried reading the manual page for the "open" system call and see when does it return EACCESS (error 13), found in /usr/include/asm-i386/errno.h. My man page for open says the following:
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Initial time machine backup larger than actual computer harddrive

I've got an iMac with a 1TB harddrive and am trying to use a time machine set up to back up my harddrive. The external harddrive I'm using for my back up is also 1TB. I currently have about 135GB of free space on my iMac's harddrive and my external drive is completely empty. When I try to back up using time machine it tells me that the back up is 1.2TB and cannot fit on my 1TB external harddrive. What would cause the initial back up to be larger than the actual computers harddrive? Is there anything I can do to rectify this issue without me needing to purchase a larger external harddrive for back up?

Ikue wrote:
The external harddrive I'm using for my back up is also 1TB. I currently have about 135GB of free space on my iMac's harddrive and my external drive is completely empty.
That means you're trying to back up about 865 GB to a 1 TB drive; and that's not large enough for Time Machine.
Time Machine not only keeps copies of everything currently on your Mac, but also previous copies of things you've changed or deleted, so it needs a lot more space than the data it's backing-up.
What's causing your immediate problem is, TM adds about 20% to the estimated size of the backup, for workspace on the TM drive and in case the estimate is too small. So 865 GB + 173 GB = over 1 TB.
Long-term, you need a much larger drive for Time Machine, at least 1.5 TB, probably 2 TB.
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Then remove the exclusion, and run another backup. Since the second backup will be much smaller, the additional 20% won't be so large as to exceed the size of the TM drive.
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I get an error message when running the backup on MacBook 2. It says "Time Machine could not complete the backup. This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 55.64GB but only 42.98GB are available"
I always though the TimeCapsule would automatically remove older backupos to make space and you would never run into such an issue.
Please not that my MacBook 1 was stolen a while ago so I do not know how to reduce the size of the larger backup.

Karl R. wrote:
I always though the TimeCapsule would automatically remove older backupos to make space and you would never run into such an issue.
Usually that's true, but not always. One exception is, Time Machine will delete the oldest backups of the Mac it's running on, but not any other Mac's backups. That's probably what you've run up against here.
Please not that my MacBook 1 was stolen a while ago so I do not know how to reduce the size of the larger backup.
First, connect to the TC via Ethernet.
If you want to delete all the backups from MacBook 1, double-click your Time Capsule via the Finder, then you should see two +sparse bundles,+ one for each Mac. Delete the one for the old Mac. That will take a long time, even via Ethernet. If it's taking extremely long, see the blue box in #Q5 of [Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/TimeCapsule.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Or, you can delete individual backups of the other Mac. To see them, you'll need the +*Browse Other Time Machine Disks+* option, per #17 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum). To delete individual backups, see #12 in the FAQ, and don't miss the pink box there.
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Time Machine Error This backup is too large for the backup disk

Hi, I have a 1TB Time Capsule which backs up my Mac. I was having some issues with my mac so I decided to perform an erase and install and then use Migration Assistant to transfer everything back to my Mac.
After I reinstalled Snow Leopard and restored my Mac using Migration Assistant, Time Machine says that the backup has failed. It says " Time Machine Error This backup is too large for the backup disk. The Backup requires 663 GB but only 255 GB are available.
What do I do? Is my only option to erase my Time Capsule and have it back everything up from scratch?

Hi, thanks for the help. I erased everything off of the Time Capsule and it's backing up my Mac from scratch. It's almost finished backing up my whole mac. It's now at 641.86gb of 646.54gb but it's now backing up very slowly. It's backing up .1 every few minutes. Is this normal?
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Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Stuart%[email protected]/Time%20Capsule
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Stuart%[email protected]/Time%20Capsule
Creating disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule/StuartsMacPro.sparsebundle
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule/StuartsMacPro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Detected system migration from: /Volumes/My Book
Backup content size: 850.0 GB excluded items size: 606.5 GB for volume Stuart's Drive
Backup content size: 425.9 GB excluded items size: 67.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 722.56 GB requested (including padding), 928.68 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
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"This backup is too large for the backup disk" WHY?

My iMac has a 2tb internal drive.
I got a 4th gen 2tb Time Capsule to back it up.
Problem is I get this message - "This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 2.10 TB but only 2.00 TB are available." WHY?
My internal drive is using 1.75gb of 2tb. Time Capsule is 4th gen 2tb, firmware up to date.
2nd Question - can the WAN and/or wifi ports be easily replaced if they are faulty on another Time Capsule?

pride_1998 wrote:
My iMac has a 2tb internal drive.
I got a 4th gen 2tb Time Capsule to back it up.
Sorry, but that's too small.
Since Time Machine keeps copies of things that have been changed or deleted, it needs much more space than the data it's backing-up. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #1.
Your options are not good. You can connect a larger USB drive and back up to that instead, but I'm not sure how large a drive the TC can handle. It would probably need a powered hub, as the USB port is underpowered.
Or, you could use a different backup app. CarbonCopyCloner and ChronoSync might be workable alteratives.
Problem is I get this message - "This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 2.10 TB but only 2.00 TB are available." WHY?
It adds "padding" in case the initial estimate is too low, and for workspace on the destination.

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