Hello,
I upgraded 2017 MBP to HS (and AFPS). I have ~550Gb on 1TB drive. In 24 hours I am left with 40Gb free, rest is in /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupd (~400Gb)
I thought I'll just disable local backups as I found on line, but that keyword does not seem to be on my OSX 10.13 available.
How do I get my space back? It looks to me like the TM created on my APFS whole backup copy of my data folder.
Note, that I use 3 different TM disks - but all three made backup in the last 24 hours.
I chat with Apple but they were really not helpful. They said the TM local snapshots should be removed after backup. Well, they were not - backup just finished before I started to look into this. But these are not the real local snapshots (I removed those using tmutil deletelocalsnapshots), this is real Backps.backupd directory on my local drive.
Edit: May be fixed. I used Finder and went to /Volumes/ and deleted the Time machine Backups folder. I think it was somehow created when TM was suppose to backup to my Airport connected backup drive and may be network went down? It was created overnight, when that back-up was running.
I upgraded 2017 MBP to HS (and AFPS). I have ~550Gb on 1TB drive. In 24 hours I am left with 40Gb free, rest is in /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupd (~400Gb)
I thought I'll just disable local backups as I found on line, but that keyword does not seem to be on my OSX 10.13 available.
How do I get my space back? It looks to me like the TM created on my APFS whole backup copy of my data folder.
Note, that I use 3 different TM disks - but all three made backup in the last 24 hours.
I chat with Apple but they were really not helpful. They said the TM local snapshots should be removed after backup. Well, they were not - backup just finished before I started to look into this. But these are not the real local snapshots (I removed those using tmutil deletelocalsnapshots), this is real Backps.backupd directory on my local drive.
Edit: May be fixed. I used Finder and went to /Volumes/ and deleted the Time machine Backups folder. I think it was somehow created when TM was suppose to backup to my Airport connected backup drive and may be network went down? It was created overnight, when that back-up was running.
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