= Limiting the Backup Volume Size =
By default, Apple's Time Machine software will grow the backup size to use all available disk space. To artificially limit this, do the following.
```Do not By default, Apple's Time Machine software will grow the backup size to use all available disk space. To artificially limit the amount of space it takes, do this while a backup is runningthe following.```
'''WARNING: Do not do this while a backup is running! It may mess up your backups!''' == Amahi 9 == * Edit For Amahi 9, change /etc/netatalk/afp.conf ... and in the [Amahi™] section, add this line vol size limit = 300for 300MiB of limit.* Execute this as root: systemctl restart netatalk == Amahi 8 ==* For Amahi 8, edit the file /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default: On the line that begins '/var/hda/files/amahi-time-machine', add 'volsizelimit:XXXX' AFTER the 'options:..' part separated by a apce, where XXXX is the artificial limit in MiB. Example for a ~600GB limit:
:DEFAULT: options:tm,upriv,usedots volsizelimit:600000
* Execute this as root: