[NPMUG] Time Machine and Time Capsule .... "omitting the oldest files ...."

[Dave Sevick]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Sallie Boggs wrote:

> I have a time capsule with a ton of gigabites and just got a message  
> that it is full and will start omitting the oldest files.  Should i  
> disconnect it and start over or what?

Sallie,

One of the great features of the Time Machine system built into the  
Time Capsule is the ability to continue using it when the disk is  
full.   The Time Machine software is able to allow new backups to come  
in and the oldest to be deleted so you'll have a history as big a the  
disk can allow.

See :  http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/backup.html

You'll need to decide whether a daily update of the disk what you want  
is sufficient  ....

....  or whether you are OK with a complete wipe of the disk and  
starting Time Machine over again with today as Day 1.

Alternatively you could get another disk (FireWire or USB ) , start a  
new Time Machine disk ( locally connected via FireWire or  
USB )  .....  and just store the current one away as a record of the  
files that were backed during the last year or so when you collected  
Gigabytes of data.

As a business, you could also consider rotating drives each week or  
each month as alternating Time Machines.   This is a strategy I  
recommend often to businesses that need to keep data off-site for  
security .... should there be a fire or data loss on their systems.

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So, for you as a home user, you'll need to decide if files are needed  
from that last year of the Time Capsule .... and that is a personal  
decision on how valuable that data is to you.

For the time being ..... you are safe to use the very cool feature of  
"omitting the oldest files ...."

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Finally, I can say without reservation that the Time Machine backup  
feature of OSX 10.5 Leopard is one of the most compelling reasons to  
upgrade Leopard.  It just works.

Dave






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