How long does TM hold backups?

I have a 1TB HD I am using as my TM back up disk. It currently has 429GB available.
When I go into Restore it only lets me restore from about 1.5 months ago, yet when I look on the hard disk I can see the earliest date is in April, how can I get TM to restore files from this date?
I also thought TM was a safe place to store files but have noticed that it is deleting older dates, will it just delete everything past a certain date even though there is plenty of space on the HD?

Hello neil:
TM makes hourly backups "today," saves all of yesterday's, before that they are daily for the current month, and before that weekly. TM will automatically delete the oldest files when it runs out of space.
I do not understand the 1.5 month issue you posted. That is not, as far as I know, normal.
Is your external HD used only for TM backups?
Barry

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