Back up is eating all my disk space

I called the help support and I told them that my back up is taking up all my disk space. They told me tolocate the time machine back up in hd and them delete the time machine and i did not know how to do this.  does anyone know how to get rid of this back up. I am trying omi sweep but I still cant find where all the back up data is coming from.

here are instructions: http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/28/disable-time-machine-local-backups-in-mac-os-x-li on/

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