local Time Machine Backups

[lomby]

Hi all!

In lion there are now local time machine backups but my question(s) is:

1. is there away to disable/ delete them?
2. can i limit the amount of space it uses?

Thank you all in advance

 

[lomby]

Can someone plain anything

Thanks in advance guys

 

[paulsalter]

I use a MacBook and only backup to time machine once per week (occasionally more if I have been doing a lot)

when I have done my backup, I turn time machine off in preferences, not getting any local backups now

when I plug my backup drive in, I just turn time machine on until the backup id done

not ideal, but it has stopped local backups

 

[lomby]

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I am on a mbp, love it to bits but I think I will need to go that way...

Any other opinions are welcome

 

[paulsalter]

I have also seen this command mentioned, but not tried it myself

sudo tmutil disablelocal

 

[lomby]

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Thank you for this

But I might stay away from terminal just in case I stuff something up :s

I really actually do appreciate this though