Hi, i have a time capsule that my laptop backs upto, however in the 'about this mac' part of the system properties, it says that backups are taking up 63Gb of space, i tried the chat however they cut me off after 10 minutes because it was 'past buisness hours'. hope the community can help!
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), I have a Time Capsule with space
Make sure your backup hard drive is at least twice as big as your original in terms of capacity. If it isn't, the archives will likely have trouble being maintained on automatic backup mode. You can manually backup using the Time Machine preference, and toggling its status. Don't backup in the middle of production work, and let the backup complete before you resume working with production. A hard drive only needs to be as big as the original if you clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper. But then you don't get archives of files you delete on that drive. You may want a different approach towards archives if you can't afford a double size drive.
Make sure your backup hard drive is at least twice as big as your original in terms of capacity. If it isn't, the archives will likely have trouble being maintained on automatic backup mode. You can manually backup using the Time Machine preference, and toggling its status. Don't backup in the middle of production work, and let the backup complete before you resume working with production. A hard drive only needs to be as big as the original if you clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper. But then you don't get archives of files you delete on that drive. You may want a different approach towards archives if you can't afford a double size drive.
Hi, yep my time capsule still has 1.5Tb, and my mac air only has 256, so theres nothing wrong there, i have backed up to the time capsule today, is there somewhere i can go to delete the local backups?
Now after deleting a video that was 15gb my 'backups' and 'other' have both increased roughly 15gb too each
Those are local snapshots. They will be deleted when that space is needed, but if you want to delete them manually then just go to System Preferences and turn off Time Machine, then turn it back on. This will delete the local snap shots. The following is a link which can explain local snapshots.
Hi, i accidentaly clicked this helped me instead of this solved my question. It did solve it, thanks how do i now say that it solved it, if i have no reply in the next 30 mins ill say that mine solved it but it was actually the following:
Those are local snapshots. They will be deleted when that space is needed, but if you want to delete them manually then just go to System Preferences and turn off Time Machine, then turn it back on. This will delete the local snap shots. The following is a link which can explain local snapshots.
Backup taking up space
