How will Apple Backup 3 behave when destination drive is full?

I have one external drive I use with time machine and a second that I schedule some backups using Apple Backup 3.1.2(v374). My destination drive is almost full and I'm wondering what will happen once it fills up? Will the backups start erroring out? I'm just trying to figure out if there is any way to have it function as time machine does...deleting the oldest copies, etc. Thanks.

Hi whmcqueary;
Never having used Backup I am not sure of the answer but my money would be on erroring out instead of deleting old backups.
Allan

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