On Nov 5, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 4, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote:
>
>> They said I should connect the larger one to the Time Machine so
>> it will be constantly up to date. I should backup the smaller one
>> every month or so to bring it up to date. Imagine my surprise today
>> when I switched to the smaller backup partition and got a message
>> that
>> I needed 42.4 GB and I only had 41.5GB, so I couldn't backup.
>
> I'm guessing that whatever program you're using to back up the entire
> disk to the smaller partition is not erasing the old backup first, and
> so is trying to cram another backup of your hard drive into the space
>
>
> --
> Bruce Johnson
>
> "No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
>
> What you say sounds reasonable. I simple tried using the Time
> Machine to backup the smaller partition. I assumed the time machine
> simply made whatever small changes were necessary rather than
> replace everything.
Wilton
>
> >
Wilton Shaw
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