I got a problem with timemachine and I would like a better solution than to delete the whole thing and do it completely new. Because I'd loose so many incremental backups I might need.
I didn't properly exclude enough and now it complains about too little space.
Now I excluded another partition that doesn't really need backing up and a folder with temporary test data that grew to 40+GB in size.
Excluding it did reduce the necessary backup data a lot. Quick small now indeed with only 45 GB.
It still keeps complaining because it doesn't remove the old big folders from the old backups and has only 15GB space left.
How do I tell it do delete all the excluded stuff from old backups and keep only the stuff that is still included????
It seems not smart enough to figure that part out itself.
Rather urgent I don't want to be without backups for long.
I didn't properly exclude enough and now it complains about too little space.
Now I excluded another partition that doesn't really need backing up and a folder with temporary test data that grew to 40+GB in size.
Excluding it did reduce the necessary backup data a lot. Quick small now indeed with only 45 GB.
It still keeps complaining because it doesn't remove the old big folders from the old backups and has only 15GB space left.
How do I tell it do delete all the excluded stuff from old backups and keep only the stuff that is still included????
It seems not smart enough to figure that part out itself.
Rather urgent I don't want to be without backups for long.
