Deleting Old Catalogs Archives

Does anyone know if you can delete old catalog archives. I backup lightroom once a week, but I noticed that the copy each week has a large file size (around 150-200 MB), I have been using the program around 6 months and it is starting to chew up some hard drive space. Are you able to delete any of the older archive backups? Also, if so, does lightroom have an option to do this?
Thanks,
brent

No, there is no option in Lightroom for how many backups of your catalog that you keep; and no button to purge/delete them either.
In a way Lightroom leads us into expecting this, but I would not be too bothered about it as a feature.
I would prefer Lighroom to concentrate totally on our needs for photography and not get bloated with file management, that is more easily done outside of the program.
If every program that we use gave us options to copy/replicate/duplicate files then we would be in big trouble.
So my 2 cents worth is to know where the files are and get rid of some that are hogging space or are not worth keeping.

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Time Machine / Time Capsule
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2. Time machine is controlled by complex software, and while you can delve into the TM backup database for specific file(s) extraction, this is not ideal or desirable.
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Yes.
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