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

[Chris Andrews]

How much RAM have you got? I'm wondering about swapfiles…

Chris  

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On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 22:42, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:

> Julian and mischa, thanks for this insight - julian i remember you talking about the fact that time machine does these dumps, but this is after in fact i got home from a big road trip and multiple time machines had been done - syncing hourly.  
>  
> Thanks for the util tip for time machine.  i'm not sure however what the list from listbackups is telling me and what i might do about it. THere are about a dozen entries
>  
> hockeypuck:~ mc$   tmutil listbackups
> /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/HockeyPuck/2011-09-14-095724
> [snip a bunch of entries to last one:]  
> /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/HockeyPuck/2011-12-13-211717
>  
> (yes hockey in canadians is genetic: let me just get that out of the way here)
>  
> this tells me the paths for the computer's snapshots i think, but does that mean they're still on the local disk? it seems like this is just a log?
>  
> sorry to be so naive on this one.
>  
> (nice page here by the way http://real-world-systems.com/docs/tmutil.1.html)
>  
> plainly you could give us tutorials on TM, Jules.
>  
> thanks as well all for the utility help - i've been using disksweeper by omni - cool to hear of other tools.
>  
> mc
>  
> On 13 Dec 2011, at 20:50, Jules Field wrote:
> > 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
> > > >    
> > <julessig.png>  
> > --   
> > sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk (mailto:sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk)  

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