Time Machine Conundrum
So, I have Time Machine running on Apple’s new Leopard O/S and I am pretty happy with it, except this conundrum:
As reported earlier, Leopard’s upgrade process corrupted my main drive (luckily I was able to recover it, and I had a backup) so I went out and got a new drive to install clean on. After I was satisfied I had everything off of the old drive, I formatted it and copied all of my music, photos and movies to the newly erased old drive off of an external drive that I now want to use for backing up my laptop. So, I dutifully copied all of that stuff off of the external drive and onto the old system drive. Time Machine now, however, is failing to backup because it wants to backup both the old drive and the photos/music drive and doing this will exceed the backup drive capacity. OK, no problem, I figure, I will go in and delete the backup for just that external drive. No dice, permission denied, can’t delete from the backups. OK, open terminal, sudo rm -rf …, STILL permission denied. Ugh.
So, I guess I just have to wait for it to age out? I don’t know. Should I wipe the backup clean? Is there no way to remove parts of a backup that are completely stale?
