Nice utility but has a very serious issue - Pol-Online
First an important disclaimer: Mathusalem is not intended to clone an entire volume: it's not Time Machine. Mathusalem is only intended to backup to a remote destination a subset of your disk representing your most important data like your documents, email and photos.
Version 1.2 indeed has an issue in which it wasn't checking for free space on disk before starting the backup: this is fixed in 1.3.
With version 1.2 and earlier, you will only end up saturating your disk if you attempt to make a very large backup, so extremely few users have it the issue according to the reports. Also, snapshot space should be automatically be reclaimed when Mathusalem quits, but it couldn't be the case for you since had to kill Mathusalem.
In any case, since the snapshot is in the temporary directory, all you need to do is restart your Mac to clear it.
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Nice utility but has a very serious issue - Pol-Online
First an important disclaimer: Mathusalem is not intended to clone an entire volume: it's not Time Machine. Mathusalem is only intended to backup to a remote destination a subset of your disk representing your most important data like your documents, email and photos.Version 1.2 indeed has an issue in which it wasn't checking for free space on disk before starting the backup: this is fixed in 1.3.
With version 1.2 and earlier, you will only end up saturating your disk if you attempt to make a very large backup, so extremely few users have it the issue according to the reports. Also, snapshot space should be automatically be reclaimed when Mathusalem quits, but it couldn't be the case for you since had to kill Mathusalem.
In any case, since the snapshot is in the temporary directory, all you need to do is restart your Mac to clear it.
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Monday, September 01 2008 @ 12:33 AM PDT