Time Capsule backs up 6-12 gigabytes every time?

My Time Capsule is working perfectly, but i'm a bit anoyed that it backs up huge amounts of data every time.
I've set it to do backup once every 12 hours. And when it runs, it often has 12GB to backup - and i do not add 12gigs to my imac every 12 hours?
What could be the reason for this, and how to i solve it?
Do yours backup this amount of data every time ?

What I would do to find out what's happening (given there's no log, which to me is a problem) is Open Time Machine (not the prefs) type an "a" into the find dialog, then hit the "+" sign on the right size. Search for files larger than 800Mb to see what big files are getting backed up every time. Perhaps you can exclude them?
If they are a "sparseimage" disk file, consider converting that disk image to a sparsebundle instead. That way Time Machine will only back up the bands that have changed rather than the whole disk.
Parallels/VMWare Machines are also notorious space eaters. Consider excluding them as well (of course, after figuring out an alternate backup strategy for their data).
Steve

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tool wrote:
Now i just got this Time Capsule, and i am under the impression that i don't need to partition anything? I can't anyway, as it is a .sparseimage file. But i should be able to back up all my macs to the same Time Capsule HD.
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Happy 2015.
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My oh my, slightly exceeds your lifespan.. three score and 10 or if you are strong four score..81,000 years hmmm..
Are you using Lion.. 10.7.5 to be exact .. you are subject to a serious bug, created by Apple and not fixed before release to all computers.. great the level of testing Apple does now.. think of yourself as a beta tester..
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Windows home version MSBackup, cannot backup to network drives.
That was a little bonus from Bill for those who didn't fork out for Pro or Ultimate.
Like people with home versions would never need to backup to network drives.. oh no.. never!!
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The default hard disk share name of data is fine. It should not be Time Capsule or anything again that is over long .. has spaces or is otherwise incompatible with windows.
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