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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
?naming a pen drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1677061" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>It waits until all the available storage is used up then it starts deleting the oldest backups.</p><p>So is this a relatively new computer for you? It is entirely possible that you only have 30Gb or less on it at the moment as the operating system and native applications don't use up that much space but potentially you have at least 100Gb spare which in my experience will, like a spare wardrobe, eventually get filled with documents, pictures, music, other applications and data related to the things I have mentioned. So if you had asked what size external hard drive do I need for time machine backups on my computer I would have said 300GB minimum. This will allow a reasonable time before the oldest backups start being deleted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1677061, member: 204485"] It waits until all the available storage is used up then it starts deleting the oldest backups. So is this a relatively new computer for you? It is entirely possible that you only have 30Gb or less on it at the moment as the operating system and native applications don't use up that much space but potentially you have at least 100Gb spare which in my experience will, like a spare wardrobe, eventually get filled with documents, pictures, music, other applications and data related to the things I have mentioned. So if you had asked what size external hard drive do I need for time machine backups on my computer I would have said 300GB minimum. This will allow a reasonable time before the oldest backups start being deleted. [/QUOTE]
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