Hi Andrew Yes a bigger drive would be much better for backing up. Time Machine creates a lot of dated variations of files, so you do need minimum 1.5x more space for backing up than the capacity of your drive.
Time Machine should be deleting older backups to make space, but it'll always keep the original versions of any of your files (and the latest). If there's not enough space on the drive to add new files, you'll get an error when backing up. Regards Sam MacAmbulance Providing affordable Apple & PC services Sam Mullen 07747 778022 http://www.macambulance.co.uk i...@macambulance.co.uk On 29 Dec 2012, at 12:14, andrew lancaster <andre...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi. Time machine wants to back up but has announced that my Iomega HDD is > full up. How do I delete stuff? I don't actually require anything from > before today (as far as I know!!) so can I just move the folders to trash and > start again? > > I am assuming that it IS actually full as opposed to defunct, but the blue > flashing light at the front is no longer doing anything.... could it have > gone wrong or does the light go out when the drive is full up? It is only 320 > gig so I presume I'd do better with a much bigger one? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > And Happy New Year! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
