<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>4g<br><br>Sent from my iSomething<div><br></div></div><div><br>On 13 Dec 2011, at 22:47, Chris Andrews <<a href="mailto:w@lfie.org">w@lfie.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">How much RAM have you got? I'm wondering about swapfiles…<div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 22:42, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div>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. <div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div><div>hockeypuck:~ mc$ tmutil listbackups</div><div>/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/HockeyPuck/2011-09-14-095724</div><div>[snip a bunch of entries to last one:] </div><div>/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/HockeyPuck/2011-12-13-211717</div><div><br></div><div>(yes hockey in canadians is genetic: let me just get that out of the way here)</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>sorry to be so naive on this one.</div><div><br></div><div>(nice page here by the way <a href="http://real-world-systems.com/docs/tmutil.1.html">http://real-world-systems.com/docs/tmutil.1.html</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>plainly you could give us tutorials on TM, Jules.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks as well all for the utility help - i've been using disksweeper by omni - cool to hear of other tools.</div><div><br></div><div>mc</div><div><br><div><div>On 13 Dec 2011, at 20:50, Jules Field wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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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.<br>
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Do a <br>
tmutil listbackups<br>
and it will show you what its got, which may include recent local
snapshots. It does often take a few seconds.<br>
See the manpage for "tmutil" for how to manage Time Machine in
detail and control everything from the command line. It's quite
comprehensive.<br>
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Jules.<br>
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On 13/12/2011 20:06, Mischa Tuffield wrote:
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<div>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.</div>
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-Mischa's phone</div>
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On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:03 PM, "dr. m.c. schraefel" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk">mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>>
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<div>what keeps eating space on my drive?
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<div>i had cleaned out many many gigs on my drive. last
night, i got a notice "less than a gig left" and thot
"what??"</div>
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<div>restarted, recovered a few gigs (??) but today,
after adding nothing, see that it's already 6 gigs
less than last night. </div>
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<div>this seems peculiar. </div>
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<div>any thoughts?</div>
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<div>with thanks</div>
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