Time Machine Backups

[Mike1967]

I have a G5 Tower with Leopard 10.5.2 installed. I have a (now measley) 160 GB internal HD that I am using Time Machine to back up to a Maxtor external 250GB HD.
My internal drive is almost full, and my backup is almost full. With a 90GB difference between the two, why is my external so maxed out? I realize that TM is keeping backups of items I deleted on my internal drive, but 90 gigs worth? You can't even delete items on the backup (maybe you can with TM turned off?). My question: will TM continue to backup my data until my external HD explodes? I am thinking about buying a 1TB Time Capsule or a ReadyNas drive (assuming it works with Leopard), but I assume these will fill up as well.

Any thoughts or direction here is greatly appreciated!!

 

[Silver-Fox]

time machine should realize your running out of space and delete old backups, then it should free up some space

 

[Mike1967]

Time Machine Backups

Thanks for a quick reply. Is there a point where this kicks in (i.e. 5GB left then it deletes)? I'm currently at around 7 gigs remaining on the backup drive. Can this feature be adjusted by the user?

Thanks!

 

[Diggity-Dan]

As far as I know, it just deletes the oldest backup as it needs to. My external has already ran out of space. One day, after TimeMachine finished doing a backup, a message popped up saying that it had ran out of space and that it deleted the oldest backup.