Crazy Time Machine

[stege]

Hi everybody!
I really have a problem with time machine
It continues making huge backup! I've looked with console and only today I could see it made backup for:
1.36gb
530Mb
2.43gb
885Mb
907Mb
900Mb
18.3Gb (!!!!)
536Mb

I have no peer to peer or torrent software installed. (so no temporay junk folder).
Do you know how could I check what is using so much space?
thanks a lot!

 

[soberbrain]

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My first guess would have been your downloads folder, but it sounds like that's not the case.

I've used this to figure out what's taking up space on my Mac.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/grandperspective.html

 

[Mal]

Do you use any virtualization software, or anything that would have a large database? That could explain the one large backup.

jW

 

[stege]

thanks for the answers!
I use parallels, but it should have already been backupped.

Thanks also for the link to the program. I already use it but is not helping me much with my current problem.
The problem is that I would like to know exactly which files time machine is performing backup on in order to see if everything is fine...and it seems to be impossible to do so

 

[stege]

for example right now is performing another backup of 2.2gb!!!

 

[Phil A.]

thanks for the answers!
I use parallels, but it should have already been backupped.

Thanks also for the link to the program. I already use it but is not helping me much with my current problem.
The problem is that I would like to know exactly which files time machine is performing backup on in order to see if everything is fine...and it seems to be impossible to do so

If you use parallels, you'll probably want to exclude your virtual machines from the backup. The reason for this is that every time you make the slightest change, the entire Virtual disk will be backed up again which could be many GBs of data

There is a very useful (free) utility called TimeTracker that you can use to view exactly what Time Machine backed up each time: you can get it from this site

 

[Jolly Giant]

Do you use any virtualization software, or anything that would have a large database? That could explain the one large backup.

jW

If you use parallels, you'll probably want to exclude your virtual machines from the backup. The reason for this is that every time you make the slightest change, the entire Virtual disk will be backed up again which could be many GBs of data[/url]

for example right now is performing another backup of 2.2gb!!!

the above two posters are correct. exclude the virtual machines from the backup.

also have a look @ this user tip.

 

[stege]

Splendid!!
Thanks for the info.
I've just downloaded timetracker and it seems to be what I was looking for!

Right now I've excluded Parallels from the backup, and from what I've read on the tips&triks from the troubleshooting, I think I will remove dropbox as well!

Thanks a lot to everybody, I hope with this I will fix it
ciao!