Time Machine backups are huge!?

[tman1425]

Ever since installing Lion, my time machine backups have continuously been very large. At least twice per day it tries to backup over 30GB of data even though I haven't changed or added any files, programs, etc. What could it possibly be backing up every time?

Thanks in advance!

 

[basher]

Are you running windows in a VM session?

 

[tman1425]

Yes, I'm using parallels. Is that the problem? Any way to avoid it?

 

[crypticlineage]

I am experiencing the same problem too, but I am not using any vm sessions. I don't have any vm environment installed.

 

[Jagardn]

Yes, I'm using parallels. Is that the problem? Any way to avoid it?

Yes, you need to go to your TM preferences and ignore the directory where your Virtual disks reside. If your VM is 20GB, every change to it will require that it be backed up again.

 

[Madd the Sane]

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There's an app called TimeTracker (I think) that will tell you what was backed up when.

 

[tootall]

Yes, you need to go to your TM preferences and ignore the directory where your Virtual disks reside.

I have the same problem... How can I find where "Parallels" resides?

 

[sidewinder]

I have the same problem... How can I find where "Parallels" resides?

Have you ever heard of Spotlight????

~/Documents/Parallels

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[moonchilddave]

I used TimeMachineEditor which will show you the log file entries (mainly because I only care about backing up once a day). The other thing is that with using TimeMachineEditor, it doesn't keep backups on your local drive (since you have to turn off Time Machine).

 

[tman1425]

Thank you everyone for your help. It is now backing up normally again!

 

[nospeed411]

Wait...let me get this straight...you actually have a working time machine after lion????? I call shenanigans.

 

[Watabou]

Wait...let me get this straight...you actually have a working time machine after lion????? I call shenanigans.

Time machine works fine for me in Lion.

 

[sidewinder]

Time machine works fine for me in Lion.

Time Machine is working normally for me as well......

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[tootall]

Have you ever heard of Spotlight????

~/Documents/Parallels

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Yes I have actually, but being new to macs, I was desperately looking for some type of "parallel.vm" file . I eventually answered my own question when I realized that the directory to exclude was the one with "Windows 7.pvm".

Thank you for the answer and the gratuitous sarcasm.