Time Machine almost full and keeps backing up GB's of data

[rgarjr]

So I think my TM drive is almost full (external drive connected to an AEBS). The thing is though every time I run the backup my MacBook, it backup 22GB even though I didn't change anything, which is a PITA since it take a while. Any solutions to this?

 

[liamwillib]

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I had some consistently large backups and it turned out it was the local copy of my iDisk. Time machine sees the whole volume as 1 file so even if you only edit 1 small file, the whole volume gets backed up again. This is the same if u turned on filevault. I believe virtual machines are also the same. You will need to select any of these files to be ignored in time machine preferences

 

[rgarjr]

yeah I do have Parallels with Windows 7 installed on it. I did some Windows updates prior to running TM so that could have been it.