Keeping TC from filling up...

I bought a TC last weekend the 1 TB model. Got it hooked up with no problems. I have three computers backing up to it with Time Machine.
After each computer made it's initial back up there was roughly 50% of the 1 tb left.
Now I'm noticing each day when the computers back up they are each adding anywhere from 12 to 24 gigs each to the Time Machine. Seems obvious it's just going to slowly fill up the HD completely.
I want to keep some space available for file exchanges/storage over the net.
I looked at TM preferences and see now way to cap how much space it uses.
What's the solution?

Jolly Blackburn1 wrote:
After each computer made it's initial back up there was roughly 50% of the 1 tb left.
You may not have enough backup space for all those Macs. It varies greatly, of course, depending on how you use your Macs, but our general rule is Time Machine needs 2-3 times the space of the data its backing-up.
I looked at TM preferences and see now way to cap how much space it uses.
What version of OSX are you on? If all your Macs are on 10.6.2 or earlier, you can limit the maximum size of the +sparse bundles+ containing their backups. See #A8 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
But if any are on 10.6.3 or later, or you upgrade any of them to 10.6.3 or later, Time Machine will automatically increase the maximum to the size of the TC's disk every time it runs a backup. In that case, one option is to make a disk image, as Neil suggests. See the blue box in #Q3 of Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum) for details.
Another option is to connect a USB drive to the Time Capsule, as mentioned in #Q3. You might even want to partition it, and back one of the Macs up to that partition instead of the TC's internal HD.

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