TM eats up internal disk space while it backs up externally

I started the morning at work with 18GB free on my internal hard disk. After a morning of running Time Machine, I noticed that I only had 2GB left on the internal drive. Pretty soon I could watch as the backup process added about 1GB every five minutes to my internal drive. Meanwhile, it seemed to be backing up to the hard drive as normal. Finally, it had filled up my entire internal drive so that I had literally 0k remaining.
I have never set my internal drive as the backup location. I wouldn't even know how.
AppleCare tells me to erase and restore to fix the problem, but that still won't get back my precious internal hard disk space. Where was TM putting all that junk, and how can I get rid of it????

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
You may have the "Doppelganger" folder problem. Turn Time Machine OFF.
From a Finder window, select +Go > Go to Folder,+ then type /Volumes in the prompt.
That should show all your internal and external drives. They should all be Aliases, of either 4 KB or zero size.
Anything that isn't an alias, but is an actual folder, delete it and empty the trash. You'll probably have to enter your Admin password.
If that's no help, do the +Go to Folder+ again, then type /Var/log in the prompt.
You may have some huge files there; delete them and empty the trash.

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*"/dev/md/rdsk/d100" = no such device or address*
*/dev/md/rdsk/d100 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 = can`t check file system*
please run fsck manually"
we have run command "fsck". but the problem still there. System can`t boot. :-(
But, while we put the original disk back, the system can run normally.
Is there any steps that we are missing? Kindly need your help, please....we stuck. No idea...please response
Thank you for any help and suggestion
regarads,
ferianto

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