Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac, 5th Edition

Manage Your Media

For many people, a backup drive may sit on a desk for years, quietly doing its thing without any intervention. For others, two or more drives may be shuttled between locations to provide offsite storage. But in either case, your backup drive won’t last forever. So, in this brief chapter, I look at What to Do When Your Disks Fill Up and explain why you should Consider Long-Term Archive Storage.

What to Do When Your Disks Fill Up

Your bootable duplicates (if any) and versioned backups should continue updating themselves happily for some time. But sooner or later, the drives you use for backups will fill up. (Whether this takes a few months or a few years depends on the rate at which you accumulate new data and the size of your ...