Hard Drive Size (Get Info) vs Actual Backup Size

Get Info on my Hard Drive clearly states that 168 GB are used, HOWEVER when using Time Machine and Super Duper the backup size is 60 GB. Moreover, I have done a manual compare on the backup and actual hard drive directory by directory and the folders are all the proper sizes. What can be triggering et Info to be reporting such a discrepancy?

davidavdavid wrote:
Get Info on my Hard Drive clearly states that 168 GB are used, HOWEVER when using Time Machine and Super Duper the backup size is 60 GB. Moreover, I have done a manual compare on the backup and actual hard drive directory by directory and the folders are all the proper sizes. What can be triggering et Info to be reporting such a discrepancy?
If you've done more than one Time Machine backup, looking at the size of each backup folder will show a wildly inflated size: each backup will appear to be roughly the size of your entire system. This is because each folder has "hard links" to all the files that didn't change between backups.
If you're putting Time Machine backups and SuperDuper backups on the same disk drive, they should be in separate partitions. See #3 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.

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