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"Virginizing" Time Machine
Hello fellow ReadyNAS users. I've been playing around with Time Machine on my ReadyNAS Duo for a while trying to correct my mistakes from my first set up. I.e. I initially didn't use the correct TM...
There should not be 2 folders for timemachine - the ".Timemachine" folder seems very wrong as it contains the internal contents of a sparsebundle and also ReadyNAS have always used ".timemachine" for TM backups. I have no idea how that can have happened - looking at my 4.2.19 installation and I see no such additional folder.
As you have SSH access, I'd be inclined to get rid of the .Timemachine folder entirely
As for lack of space - my guess is that something has happened to cause TM to want to backup your entire HDD, but there is not enough space to do that without overwriting the existing TM backup contents. TM will not do this if you only have a single version of files in the backup, forcing you to manually archive the current backup and create a new one.
Moral is - TM really needs to be able to store 2 full copies of your HDD to work reliably, or at least without your manual intervention
As you have SSH access, I'd be inclined to get rid of the .Timemachine folder entirely
As for lack of space - my guess is that something has happened to cause TM to want to backup your entire HDD, but there is not enough space to do that without overwriting the existing TM backup contents. TM will not do this if you only have a single version of files in the backup, forcing you to manually archive the current backup and create a new one.
Moral is - TM really needs to be able to store 2 full copies of your HDD to work reliably, or at least without your manual intervention
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