Giant increase in backup storage

I had an older macbook pro that when my external hard drive was backing up my files, only backed up a max of about 15 gb. I recently got a new mbp and restored my older mbp on that one, so I currently have my old mbp as a user as well as the new user. I plugged in my hard drive to back up my files this morning and it jumped to 112 gb and needless to say, it's taking forever. what gives? where did all of this extra stuff come from and is there a way i can get rid of it?
thanks!!

When you transferred the data from the old computer to the new one, the latter inherited the backup history of the former. That means the old computer is now seen by Time Machine as a different data source, and everything on it must be backed up.

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