Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Apps and Programs
Question on Time Machine back up
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="acortes" data-source="post: 761526" data-attributes="member: 58006"><p>Hello all,</p><p></p><p>I hope this is the right place to post this question: I have a 24" Mac, 4GB of memory and 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, I recently bought a 1TB WD Home version external hard drive to do my back up through Time machine.</p><p>I have done about 8 manual back ups with no problems but it just thought of something that might happen in the future but I have no answers to thus I write to you:</p><p>As I understand it, Time machine does back ups at certain intervals (in my case about once a week), so lets say my back up hard drive is already full and that I have deleted all my pictures and songs from the Mac, if for example I have 10 pictures on October 10, I back those up through Time Machine, then I delete those pictures from the mac, Time Machine will delete any previous back up to make space for its new back up (this case October 10). A week later I back up again but this time Time machine will not back any pictures because I already have deleted those. So what happens if in the future (let's say a year from now) I want to print any of those 10 pictures but they are not there as Time Machine would have deleted any old versions of its back up.</p><p>Should I buy another hard drive and keep this "old" hard drive" Is there a warning from Time Machine about deleting old versions of its back ups? Is it better to just back up certain folders (kinda like with a pc) and just update this way?</p><p></p><p>I thought the purpose of Time Machine was to keep all your information but I did not think of this before. </p><p></p><p>I hope someone has an answer for me.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for your time</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="acortes, post: 761526, member: 58006"] Hello all, I hope this is the right place to post this question: I have a 24" Mac, 4GB of memory and 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, I recently bought a 1TB WD Home version external hard drive to do my back up through Time machine. I have done about 8 manual back ups with no problems but it just thought of something that might happen in the future but I have no answers to thus I write to you: As I understand it, Time machine does back ups at certain intervals (in my case about once a week), so lets say my back up hard drive is already full and that I have deleted all my pictures and songs from the Mac, if for example I have 10 pictures on October 10, I back those up through Time Machine, then I delete those pictures from the mac, Time Machine will delete any previous back up to make space for its new back up (this case October 10). A week later I back up again but this time Time machine will not back any pictures because I already have deleted those. So what happens if in the future (let's say a year from now) I want to print any of those 10 pictures but they are not there as Time Machine would have deleted any old versions of its back up. Should I buy another hard drive and keep this "old" hard drive" Is there a warning from Time Machine about deleting old versions of its back ups? Is it better to just back up certain folders (kinda like with a pc) and just update this way? I thought the purpose of Time Machine was to keep all your information but I did not think of this before. I hope someone has an answer for me. Thank you for your time [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Apps and Programs
Question on Time Machine back up
Top