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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1791690" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>@pine man</p><p></p><p>I am genuinely interested in your response and mean no offence at all: but may I ask why would anyone want to keep 2 years' worth of backups on Time Machine?</p><p></p><p>I ask because, strictly speaking, TM is not an archive. </p><p></p><p>It performs incremental Backups (BU) and, as I understand it, is principally there to recover an accidentally deleted file or recover a previous version of a file - and, of course, can be used to restore all your data to a new Mac or following an erase/reinstall of an OS.</p><p></p><p>And in the accepted sense of the word, it is not bootable.</p><p></p><p>So why not simply erase and reformat the EHD and start a new TM backup? </p><p></p><p>Which BTW, is what the OP, poppi, should do in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1791690, member: 83420"] @pine man I am genuinely interested in your response and mean no offence at all: but may I ask why would anyone want to keep 2 years' worth of backups on Time Machine? I ask because, strictly speaking, TM is not an archive. It performs incremental Backups (BU) and, as I understand it, is principally there to recover an accidentally deleted file or recover a previous version of a file - and, of course, can be used to restore all your data to a new Mac or following an erase/reinstall of an OS. And in the accepted sense of the word, it is not bootable. So why not simply erase and reformat the EHD and start a new TM backup? Which BTW, is what the OP, poppi, should do in my opinion. Ian [/QUOTE]
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