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<blockquote data-quote="GZinn001" data-source="post: 1814969" data-attributes="member: 399121"><p>Thanks for your enlightenment, that now makes more sense. </p><p></p><p>I was getting snapshots (incremental) and backups (full) mixed up (how dumb).</p><p></p><p>However, at the end of the day, some process is loading old, complete backups into trash. </p><p></p><p>To me it now it looks like, as my external backup drive gets near full, TM strips out the oldest files and gets rid of them. They must be heading to trash.</p><p></p><p>It's that process that I want to curtail i.e. I want new backups to continue as normal and when TM is cleaning up I want TM to permanently delete the unwanted backup files instead of moving them to trash.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GZinn001, post: 1814969, member: 399121"] Thanks for your enlightenment, that now makes more sense. I was getting snapshots (incremental) and backups (full) mixed up (how dumb). However, at the end of the day, some process is loading old, complete backups into trash. To me it now it looks like, as my external backup drive gets near full, TM strips out the oldest files and gets rid of them. They must be heading to trash. It's that process that I want to curtail i.e. I want new backups to continue as normal and when TM is cleaning up I want TM to permanently delete the unwanted backup files instead of moving them to trash. [/QUOTE]
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