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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1631732" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>There is absolutely no conflicting information provided between Slydude and myself.</p><p></p><p>I have been responding to your posts.</p><p>Slydude has been responding to the ops questions. The first one was:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Please note the title of the thread: <strong>"If I delete files"</strong> part of that question.</p><p>That is the question Slydude has been responding to.</p><p></p><p>Only items that you have deleted from your internal drive, will at some point begin to be deleted by TM when the backup drive begins getting full. That is exactly what Slydude and myself have been saying. </p><p></p><p>At no point in time will Time Machine ever delete a file from the backup that currently exists on your internal drive unless you specifically go into the Time Machine preferences and exclude items from the backup.</p><p></p><p>TM is smart.</p><p>Any file that exists on your computer will be a part of every single backup that TM makes until you delete the file.</p><p>Meaning - a file created 2 years ago, never changed, never modifed, never opened again and never deleted, still sitting on your drive - will be a part of every single TM backup from the first one 2 years ago to the last one you made today - and all while only needing to keep a single copy of the file in the backup. </p><p></p><p>However, redundant backups are a good thing - I keep both a TM backup and a bootable clone of all our Macs here.</p><p>I have triplicate backups of data I really do not want to lose.</p><p></p><p>(pixeltaker, you've got the right idea there)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1631732, member: 24160"] There is absolutely no conflicting information provided between Slydude and myself. I have been responding to your posts. Slydude has been responding to the ops questions. The first one was: Please note the title of the thread: [B]"If I delete files"[/B] part of that question. That is the question Slydude has been responding to. Only items that you have deleted from your internal drive, will at some point begin to be deleted by TM when the backup drive begins getting full. That is exactly what Slydude and myself have been saying. At no point in time will Time Machine ever delete a file from the backup that currently exists on your internal drive unless you specifically go into the Time Machine preferences and exclude items from the backup. TM is smart. Any file that exists on your computer will be a part of every single backup that TM makes until you delete the file. Meaning - a file created 2 years ago, never changed, never modifed, never opened again and never deleted, still sitting on your drive - will be a part of every single TM backup from the first one 2 years ago to the last one you made today - and all while only needing to keep a single copy of the file in the backup. However, redundant backups are a good thing - I keep both a TM backup and a bootable clone of all our Macs here. I have triplicate backups of data I really do not want to lose. (pixeltaker, you've got the right idea there) [/QUOTE]
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