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This is nice since it could take hours to clean up some larger backup sets and you want to leave the Mac confident it's deleting the correct information store. …

The warning you describe comes up when the expected size of the next backup is greater than the available free space. … Once the "partial" backup was done, I re-enabled podcasts app to backup and it had a reasonable amount of space (less than 500 MB) and the situation was sorted while preserving all data to iCloud. …

tmutil status is the Lion way now that we have a nice tool for this sort of query. On newer OS, there is an undocumented command tmutil currentphase that shows the name of the current phase.

The backup isn't bootable. The backup doesn't record differences inside a file. Large (database) files with tiny changes make each incremental save longer and move more data. … Weekly backups can be deleted if there isn't enough space to contain the estimated size of the next backup. …

In practice I can't get it to fail again after cleaning the existing local backup. …

No - once a file is saved to a backup drive, you retain the history of how that file looked. … Then and only then, when the Time Machine drive becomes full, backup copies of a file will potentially be erased. …

This tool has helped me figure out problematic backup drives, Macs with filesystem corruption (when each backup is larger than it should, etc…) Once you have visibility on what's being stored, you can … delete folders, entire snapshots and configure your backup exclusion lists to be in harmony with your available storage and backup needs. …

Saving two copies of your files to the same drive isn’t a backup type that will protect you from a Boot Camp error. You’ll want to get an inexpensive USB drive to copy your critical documents. … Note, Time Machine does not backup Boot Camp. …

You could presumably delete this from the TM side, but I would remove the boot copy as marginally safer and less prone to destroying data you need or messing up your backup. …

This is a very common question and really there is no correct answer. iTunes belongs to the computer so you wouldn't run into an issue with less than five different accounts and even hundreds of devic …

The operating system and the apps themselves do not backup. …

the database and you can look through yours and see which apps take tons of space if you really need to know who is using the space by registering for every file type known to mankind and ruining your backup … I've never seen this slow down a backup or cause issues, but enough people have reported it there's got to be some programs or situations where this would be a good thing to do. …

Here are my truths: iCloud is not a backup I trust for irreplaceable items like photos, legal documents, important files. RAID is not a backup for anything I’m more likely to mess up than Apple is. … I gladly outsource backup tools to the professionals (just like I outsource music syncing and photo syncing to Apple). …

Any time you have problems starting a mac with an installer - do check these three articles: Finding your Mac OS X version and build information Mac OS X versions (builds) for computers http://suppo …

The Apple provided Disk Utility (and diskutil shell command) will allow you full RAID control over internal and external drives. You do have to erase the drives to add the RAID capability, but then yo …