![]() Thanks for taking the trouble to reply everyone, much appreciated should I be thinking of another incremental backup system? I already use dropbox for docs and photos, so have a cloud based system for irreplaceable things, but I do like to have the equivalent of a disc image for quick restore, and TM is DESIGNED to work with Macs, isn't it? What do you guys think about giving up on time machine. if not, guess I'll try ordering another hard drive - as someone said, at £40 it's not a fortune, and you can never have too many backup drives! OK, the MBP has been rebooted several times, but I'll try reformatting again, rebooting, and try again one more time. I really want an easy restore if the ssd goes down. In any case it's only saving a weeks worth of backups anyway. but I'm not worried about having backups going back too far - It's handy to be able to retrieve a file when I've "saved" instead of "saved as" - but I usually realise what I've done pretty quickly. Can't imagine I'd have entered a terminal command by mistake - the last one i used was to unblock the Catalina update (I'd been holding off until I was sure there were no unexpected 32 bit programs lurking) As someone once said, "there are 2 types of hard drive - those that have failed and those that are about to fail!"Īnd when I re-formated it Disk Utility showed the usual near 1tb free each time, so I had no suspicions there. but I guess it could have been faulty from start. Of course 1tb not 1gb stupid me! And yes, it's an USB external HD - Toshiba Canvio Basics - 2.5 Inch (1TB) USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive - and I bought it March last year, so it's only just over a year old and has only been used for backups. Thanks for your thoughts folks, much appreciated Or is it time to give Time Machine the push? but I don't want to end up with a useless back up. I'd really appreciate any further suggestions, as it's annoying to have to do this every week or so! Should I risk manually deleting old files manually? That'd be quicker and less destructive of recent backups than starting over everytime. And Time Machine doesn't seem to be handling the the old backups itself So starting over doesn't seem to give the happy ending it did on the other thread. I've done this twice now with the same result and for a while all is good - then the message comes back after a week or so. re-formatting the backup drive and making another time machine copy. I understood that Time Machine was supposed to manage deleting the oldest data by itself? I have seen advice on other sites to manually delete the oldest files on the backup disk, but also came across dire warnings from a respected member against doing that ( )īut I've tried the advice there. I've started getting the "Backup failed There isn't enough space on "BackupDrive" Message Address any prompts that appear on the screen (grant Administrative access, etc.I'm using a 1gb usb drive to back up via time machine a 2012 MacBook Pro 13" with a 500gb ssd running Catalina 10.15.4 The Graphical Timeline to the right of the Time Machine windowīrowse to, and select files/folders you wish to restore.You can navigate Time Machine through the following: Open Finder - Applications - Time Machine.At this point Time Machine prepares the drive and backs up selected data. At this point the folder size Calculations and Adjustments are made. Select files/folders and click on the Exclude button.To open System Preferences - Click on the Apple icon > System Preferences Select files/folders and click on the Exclude button.Click on the + button to change what is excluded by Time machine.At this point the Backup Disk is selected and the next Time Machine Backup will start in 120 Seconds (2 Minutes)Įxcluding items from Time Machine backup plan ( Options): Select a drive and click on the Use Disk button.A window opens showing External Storage Drives connected to your Mac To open System Preferences - Click on the Apple icon > System Preferences Click Done, the backup will start in 60 seconds.If encrypting the drive, enter the password.To open System Settings - Click on the Apple icon > System Settings Setting up the external drive to be used with Time Machine: Use this link for instructions on formatting your drive For macOS versions for 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to 10.15 (Catalina) use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) also referred to as HFS+ when setting up a new backup. ![]()
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