April 27, 201115 yr Hi! As of today my first unRAID server is running! I was wondering whether it is possible to make a share a specific size? Say I have 4 TB of HD space available and I want to use Time MAchine to back up. Time machine will eventually fill the drive as you cannot tell it to have a max size of X GB. I was thus thinking of creating a "TMBackup" Share and making it 500GB. Is that possible? thank you!
April 27, 201115 yr The only way I can think of doing this is to have a 500 GB drive and then use the included/excluded disk options to confine the TMBackup share to only that drive. The same could be accomplished using disk shares instead of user shares. Perhaps you could also play with the min free space setting. Setting it really high, like 3.5 TB, should restrict any writes to that share if there's less than 3.5 TB total free space on the disks available to that share. I'm not quite sure how well that would work, though, some trial and error might be in order.
April 27, 201115 yr The process I used to setup my Time Machine backups specifies a max file size for the bundle. I would assume that would be the best way for it not to exceed a certain size.
April 27, 201115 yr The process I used to setup my Time Machine backups specifies a max file size for the bundle. I would assume that would be the best way for it not to exceed a certain size. Sounds like you do that in Time Machine configuration? And do you have more than one share on that drive? Can this be configured in 4.7, or does AFP need to exist for Time Machine to work?
April 28, 201115 yr Author The process I used to setup my Time Machine backups specifies a max file size for the bundle. I would assume that would be the best way for it not to exceed a certain size. I h ave been running Time MAchine for years and have never seen this option. If you could tell me how to find that, it would solve all my problems!
April 28, 201115 yr The process I used to setup my Time Machine backups specifies a max file size for the bundle. I would assume that would be the best way for it not to exceed a certain size. This no longer works. Snow Leopard TM always resets the bundle size to the drive size. The min free space setting might work.
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