On 14 Jan 2021 at 18:35:35 GMT, Chris Green  wrote:

> TimS  wrote:

>>  I don't know whether Time Machine does this or not, or perhaps limits the
>>  number of hard links to any file and creates a new complete backup of teh
file
>>  and starts again.

I'm told that, in fact, TM does have this issue.

>>  On my main file machine I've set TM to use a second disk; it alternates
>>  between them, so this is some protection.
>>
> That's a rather neat idea, I might get my backup system to do it.

I also discovered that TM can use any number of drives and uses them
round-robin. If the next one is not mounted it just skips it. So I've added a
third drive that was just kicking around. It's a USB SSD so easy to remove.

--
Tim

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