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

[dr. m.c. schraefel]

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On 13 Dec 2011, at 22:47, Chris Andrews <w at lfie.org> wrote:

> How much RAM have you got? I'm wondering about swapfiles…
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> Chris
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> Chris Andrews
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> On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 22:42, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> (yes hockey in canadians is genetic: let me just get that out of the way here)
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>> 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?
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>> sorry to be so naive on this one.
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>> (nice page here by the way http://real-world-systems.com/docs/tmutil.1.html)
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>> plainly you could give us tutorials on TM, Jules.
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>> thanks as well all for the utility help - i've been using disksweeper by omni - cool to hear of other tools.
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>> mc
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>> On 13 Dec 2011, at 20:50, Jules Field wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> On 13/12/2011 20:06, Mischa Tuffield wrote:
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>>>> 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
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>>>> -Mischa's phone
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>>>> On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:03 PM, "dr. m.c. schraefel" <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>>> 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
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>>> <julessig.png> 
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