time machine behavior, post clone of home disk

[camner]

Originally Posted by dnanian

It means that Time Machine throws away old copies when it runs out of space. It is not intended as an archive, and using it that way will, eventually, result in heartache.

You are absolutely correct, of course. This is a marked difference than what one would expect in a true "archive."

My experience over the last year with TM is that it is not particularly robust. I've had to "start over" with a fresh TM a couple of times. It seems that TM is best for keeping a current backup continuously to guard against a sudden disk or volume failure that will allow one to restore quickly (hopefully) in case of such a sudden failure. Archiving should be handled differently.