I have a question re: Time Machine purging old backups.
I keep all my big media files (TV, Music, Photos library) on as external drive, which gets backed up along with my boot drive to a big Time Machine drive. I recently upgraded the Media drive, and Time Machine of course saw it as a new drive and started keeping backups of it in addition to old backups of the previous Media drive. Same files, two backups.
In the pre-APFS days of Time Machine, I'd right-click on the old Media drive backups and pick "delete all backups of..." to recover a bunch of space by deleting redundant backups -- but that's not possible anymore unfortunately. So now my Time Machine drive is getting quite full and will soon start purging the oldest backup snapshots on its own.
My question is this: will it ever get to purging backups of that old Media drive, or are they around forever?
Because right now they're hogging about 1TB of my Time Machine drive, which brings it a lot closer to its limit. I'd prefer to keep more open space so that I can keep backup versions stretching further back in time.
I keep all my big media files (TV, Music, Photos library) on as external drive, which gets backed up along with my boot drive to a big Time Machine drive. I recently upgraded the Media drive, and Time Machine of course saw it as a new drive and started keeping backups of it in addition to old backups of the previous Media drive. Same files, two backups.
In the pre-APFS days of Time Machine, I'd right-click on the old Media drive backups and pick "delete all backups of..." to recover a bunch of space by deleting redundant backups -- but that's not possible anymore unfortunately. So now my Time Machine drive is getting quite full and will soon start purging the oldest backup snapshots on its own.
My question is this: will it ever get to purging backups of that old Media drive, or are they around forever?
Because right now they're hogging about 1TB of my Time Machine drive, which brings it a lot closer to its limit. I'd prefer to keep more open space so that I can keep backup versions stretching further back in time.
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