Does MB Pro do it's own backup to the Hard Drive?

I restored my MB Pro to factory settings because it was acting up in all sort of ways, mainly I was running out of space even thought I didn't have that much data. The computer has 250 gb. And I have 50 gb in music and another 50 in pics. That's it. The rest is PDF and what not totaling no more than 20 gb at most. So when I went to the about my Mac and clicked on storage it shows that there is 60 gb in back ups. Where is this stored and can I delete it?. I have time machine set up with time capsule and do frequent back ups plus and external HD where I keep pics and music and important documents so this "in computer back up" eating my memory I do not need. Also in about my Mac under storage as well shows under "other" a significant amount of storage used. Right now i just finished reinstalling Lion and there's already 13gb used by "other" is there a work around this???
Thanks guys

Does MB Pro do it's own backup to the Hard Drive?
Yes, it does.  Well, more exactly, Time Machine does.
The backups are "local snapshots" that Time Machine uses in conjuction with the backups makde to your Time Capsule.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4878?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
There is a terminal command that can be used to turn the feature off, but I can't say that I recommend it as the local snapshots serve as a kind of safety net between regular Time Capsule back ups.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/28/disable-time-machine-local-backups-in-mac-os-x-li on/
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