Running out of HD space, iDisk space---deleting backups??
I'm relatively new to Mac, and have been happy with my MBP.
But it has become slow and a little bumpy in it performance in the last couple of weeks. When I try to backup my Home Folder to iDisk, I get an error message saying not enough room in iDisk. Likewise, when I try to back up to my HD, I get a similar error. This occurs when using the Backup application. I have an external HD to which I am backing everything up right now.
Where did all my HD space go? I suspect it is in the multiple backup files. And probably that's what is up with iDisk too. How do I know if/which backup files I can safely delete, and how do I do that?
Suggestions welcome. I have used this for about 6 months now, love it, and love having the ability to back up.....successfully!
No. Unfortunately I don't know what Backup.app is used for. I have not been a Mobile Me customer for years now that all it's services have been replicated for free around the web. Apples servers at the time were terribly slow. So it was broken for the only service I wanted it for. I have heard things have improved though.
Ultimately, you can do what you like. Any kind of backups are good to have.
My home folder is 78GB. I use a variety of backup steps for different things.
I would think that VERY important docs and pics should go on iDisk or Dropbox etc... I image my machine to external Hard Disk with SuperDuper for bootable backups and have my Home folder synced with Crashplan linked servers.
This doesn't give me any versioning except on the crashplan servers. But I have never needed that. If I were you I would just partition an external drive to what you think you will need for time machine. at least twice your Internal HD capacity. Then choose the important stuff to duplicate to iDisk for offsite storage (access). The partitioning of the HD for TM will help keep the size under control and still give you some other use for the HD. This is assuming you have a HD bigger than say 400GB.
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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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I am getting this error message "You are running out of disk space on Local Disk (C To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary file" but I have 600 GB free out of 671GB on my C drive.
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