Remove old TimeMachine Backups

[pelle.jansen]

Hi all,

I have a 2 TB NAS used for media storage and TimeMachine backup of my iMac and MacBook Air. Now the problem is that the way TimeMachine works is that it keeps a backup a month until the drive is full. But I also want to keep other files on it and don't want it to be entirely a backup disk. So my question is: can you set up time machine to delete backups older than say 5 months. I never have to go that far back and it will stop the endless loop-filling of my drive. Is there a setting, tweak, terminal command, program or anything for this?

Regards,

 

[miles01110]

Partition your drive and only assign TM the amount of space you want.

 

[pelle.jansen]

Partition your drive and only assign TM the amount of space you want.

@miles01110: My NAS doesn't support drive partitioning. I can only make a new folder that uses all of the hard drive. Searched everywhere but couldnt find anything.

PS: my NAS is a Buffalo LinkStation Live LS-CHL 2TB.