[OSX-Users] Re: lion -or something - eating gigs?

[Jules Field]

That's the reason I would bet on. TM does indeed do local snapshots 
every hour if it can't reach its proper backup destination, so that if 
you delete or corrupt a file by mistake you can roll back, despite not 
having a backup destination connected. If you do a proper TM backup to 
an external device, it should hose the local snapshots as they are no 
longer relevant.

Do a
     tmutil listbackups
and it will show you what its got, which may include recent local 
snapshots. It does often take a few seconds.
See the manpage for "tmutil" for how to manage Time Machine in detail 
and control everything from the command line. It's quite comprehensive.

Jules.

On 13/12/2011 20:06, Mischa Tuffield wrote:
> Could be offline time machine backups. If time machine hasn't had a 
> chance to backup to where it normally does, it creates local backups, 
> as far as I am aware.
>
> Mischa
>
> -Mischa's phone
>
> On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:03 PM, "dr. m.c. schraefel" <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk 
> <mailto:mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>> what keeps eating space on my drive?
>>
>> i had cleaned out many many gigs on my drive. last night, i got a 
>> notice "less than a gig left" and thot "what??"
>>
>> restarted, recovered a few gigs (??) but today, after adding nothing, 
>> see that it's already 6 gigs less than last night.
>>
>> this seems peculiar.
>>
>> any thoughts?
>>
>> with thanks
>>
>> mc

Jules

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