OK. I have a 250 GB internal drive 200 of which is full. I have a 1 TB external Time machine back up drive. I just went to create a new time machine back up and I am told that my external drive is full. WTF?? Isn't time machine supposed to delete old back ups as needed?



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You are doing manual backups? Or just letting TM do its thing?

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OK. I have a 250 GB internal drive 200 of which is full. I have a 1 TB external Time machine back up drive. I just went to create a new time machine back up and I am told that my external drive is full. WTF?? Isn't time machine supposed to delete old back ups as needed?

It just about fills the backup volume first, then rolls old backups to free enough capacity for the next backup.

"As needed."

And if you copy files to that backup drive, it'll mess up the Time Machine backups because Time Machine doesn't take into account the capacity used by those files when calculating how much space to free up.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2021 10:41PM by Sarcany.

Manual. I keep my drive off-site.

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OK. I have a 250 GB internal drive 200 of which is full. I have a 1 TB external Time machine back up drive. I just went to create a new time machine back up and I am told that my external drive is full. WTF?? Isn't time machine supposed to delete old back ups as needed?

It just about fills the backup volume first, then rolls old backups to free enough capacity for the next backup.

"As needed."

I think it needs serious help with its 'rolling'.

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OK. I have a 250 GB internal drive 200 of which is full. I have a 1 TB external Time machine back up drive. I just went to create a new time machine back up and I am told that my external drive is full. WTF?? Isn't time machine supposed to delete old back ups as needed?

It just about fills the backup volume first, then rolls old backups to free enough capacity for the next backup.

"As needed."

I think it needs serious help with its 'rolling'.

See the paragraph that I added at the end with my edit.

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How much space is left on the drive?

You shoudnt need to force it to backup after you plug it in, TM will start on its own...

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OK. I have a 250 GB internal drive 200 of which is full. I have a 1 TB external Time machine back up drive. I just went to create a new time machine back up and I am told that my external drive is full. WTF?? Isn't time machine supposed to delete old back ups as needed?

It just about fills the backup volume first, then rolls old backups to free enough capacity for the next backup.

"As needed."

I think it needs serious help with its 'rolling'.

See the paragraph that I added at the end with my edit.

Good to know! I do have about 100GB of files on there.



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OK. I have a 250 GB internal drive 200 of which is full. I have a 1 TB external Time machine back up drive. I just went to create a new time machine back up and I am told that my external drive is full. WTF?? Isn't time machine supposed to delete old back ups as needed?

It just about fills the backup volume first, then rolls old backups to free enough capacity for the next backup.

"As needed."

I think it needs serious help with its 'rolling'.

See the paragraph that I added at the end with my edit.

That did it! You are a scholar and a gentleman.