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

[Chris Andrews]

Hmm, not so likely to be swap files then, unless you're indexing the
British Lbrary in the background.

Chris

On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, dr. m.c. schraefel <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
wrote:
> 4g
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> Sent from my iSomething
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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…
> Chris
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> Chris Andrews
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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>
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
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