Time Machine Backs Up 30-39G every day ??? Using too much Space on the TC

I installed the TC about 2 weeks ago. The first backup went as plan and took all night. But the problem (I think) is that incremental backups take place during the day but every day at the end of the day the TM does a 30 to 39G backup and is using up all the space on the TC. I am sure I am not adding 30 something G every day. Can someone tell me how to setup the TM to not use all the space. I got the TC 500G 2 weeks ago and is down to 219G of free space. I think that is not right.
Please help
Thanks

That should do it. Time Machine will backup an active VM each hour if there are changes (i.e. VM is running). That amounts to 2GB+ per hour depending on the size of your VM.
To recovery that space, you need to delete the file (and all versions) from the backup. Open Finder and go to your VM folder. Click on the Time Machine icon on the Dock. Click on that file and click the Gears button. You will be given the option of +Delete All Backups of -----+. All instances of this file will be delete from TM.
To backup your VM, occasionally drag and drop the VM folder to a folder on your backup drive. TM will not touch this.
For Fusion user, go to settings and set up a shared folder outside of the VM. Fusion will then access and save to this folder. Corruption of the VM will not affect these documents. As well, TM will back up this folder as long as you have not excluded it.
Good luck!

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11/8/11 4:00:14 AM    com.apple.backupd[24091]    Backing up to: /Volumes/Everett-Backup-B/Backups.backupdb
11/8/11 4:08:45 AM    com.apple.backupd[24091]    No pre-backup thinning needed: 324.1 MB requested (including padding), 625.30 GB available
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11/8/11 4:58:44 AM    com.apple.backupd[24091]    No pre-backup thinning needed: 438.9 MB requested (including padding), 625.09 GB available
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11/8/11 5:34:37 AM    com.apple.backupd[24091]    Copied 645236 files (188.8 MB) from volume Synk_Archive.
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11/8/11 7:38:15 AM    com.apple.backupd[24091]    Deleted backup /Volumes/Everett-Backup-B/Backups.backupdb/Everett/2011-11-06-042921: 625.23 GB now available
11/8/11 7:38:15 AM    com.apple.backupd[24091]    Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
11/8/11 7:38:17 AM    com.apple.backupd[24091]    Backup completed successfully.
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11/8/11 11:27:09 AM    com.apple.backupd[25929]    Backup completed successfully.

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- Unmount the external drive. The behavior persisted.
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- Repaired disk permissions on Macintosh HD. The behavior persisted.
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This may seems like a silly question but I, too, am just learning this whole Time Machine back-up functionality. Can I use the internet and other applications while Time Machine is backing up?
Yes.
I know I can use other applications and functions together on Macs but even with Time Machine, especially when it's doing a large backup? Also, do I need to plug in my external drive every time I am on my computer? If I don't plug in (Iomega) in whenever I use my MacBook Pro, does Time Machine keep the backups to dump on the external drive later?
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http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html

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wcaroliner wrote:
So two questions: 1) how do I get this file out of the trash?
See #E6 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
2) how do I delete all of these back-up files - well, I don't need to delete all of them but there are so many? Do I really need all of these time machine back-ups? If I do delete them - what am I actually deleting? Are they just copies of my harddrive or is it a problem to delete them (when I look in the file that is in my trash it seems like it is my whole system
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The backups have a complex and somewhat unusual structure; there's a bit of "smoke and mirrors" going on there, where it appears that every backup is a full copy of your system, and it is, in a way, but isn't in another. Seems contradictory, I know. See [How Time Machine works its Magic|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Works.html] for an explanation.
I did try to delete the files by going into time machine, clicking on the gear icon, selecting a file and clicking on delete, nothing happened.
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