Back up storage on MBP 15" mountain Lion

Hi there,
Question regarding back up storage.
I back up my MBP to an external drive with time machine.....but looking at the System Information>storage it shows there is 208 Gigs of storage.
Is this redundant? Or required for back-ups locally?
Cheers,
Jay

I believe TM creates local snapshots, which is what you're seeing.

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