What is Time Machine backing up?

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Each hour, Time Machine backs up about 2GB, even when I’ve done almost no new work on my MBP. How do I figure out what the heck it’s backing up all that time?

Thanks, Andrew

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Maybe preference files? Dig into settings or if there’s a backup log. Seems odd though.

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Are you running MS Outlook?

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Have you got any vm’s running? (Virtualbox, docker, vmware etc…)

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I finally realised what was taking so long. It was simply that my Time Machine drive was full. Now that I swapped it for a new one, there’s somehow less to back up, and it’s much quicker. Thanks everyone!