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<blockquote data-quote="McBie" data-source="post: 1741310" data-attributes="member: 54417"><p>To be fair, 500 GB is not a lot for a backup disk.</p><p>Time Machine will indeed delete the oldest backups to make space for new backups. That can be a risk if you use your backup disk as an archiving mechanism.</p><p>( Archiving is not the same as a backup )</p><p>Also, if you have Time Machine set to do regular ( hourly ) backups and the backup disk is not connected, it will make a backup on your local disk until such time you connect your backup disk again.</p><p>That can take up quite some space on your local disk if you don't backup for a week.</p><p>Your assumption on the backup mechanism that Time Machine uses is correct. It will take its first full backup and then only add the changes since last backup ( Incremental backup ).</p><p></p><p>Cheers ... McBie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="McBie, post: 1741310, member: 54417"] To be fair, 500 GB is not a lot for a backup disk. Time Machine will indeed delete the oldest backups to make space for new backups. That can be a risk if you use your backup disk as an archiving mechanism. ( Archiving is not the same as a backup ) Also, if you have Time Machine set to do regular ( hourly ) backups and the backup disk is not connected, it will make a backup on your local disk until such time you connect your backup disk again. That can take up quite some space on your local disk if you don't backup for a week. Your assumption on the backup mechanism that Time Machine uses is correct. It will take its first full backup and then only add the changes since last backup ( Incremental backup ). Cheers ... McBie [/QUOTE]
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