Post #2180355
2026-05-07 00:29 UTC
I love how about every 6-9 months my desktop's time machine drive fills up and doesn't want to clean up after itself. Manual intervention is required and I have not had great luck with 'tmutil delete' reliably freeing up space. Erase and start from scratch works though.
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@scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud 2026-05-07 21:25
New first Time Machine backup completed, which consumed 50% of the backup drive. Daily delta shouldn't be that much, but we'll worry about it later. In the mean time, my external raid with all the important stuff has drives well past their rated lifespan. So, I bought four new ones and will put the old ones in an old NAS and try to do Time Machine across the LAN to it. Wish me luck.