Aha, Might have found an answer to Question 1:

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/lion-and-time-machine-offline-backups-and-document-locks/

Seems TM now keeps a locally cached copy if you are away from your TM drive.
 Hope it deletes it from my internal HDD once its done....



On 24 July 2011 20:29, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Evening Smuggers
>
> Two questions if I may:
>
> 1 - How on earth do I figure out what is being backed up that would result
> in a 20GB backup, when the last back up was only a few days ago, after a
> Lion install, with no photos, minimal emails and no new apps?
>
> 2 - Can a new computer (planning on an iMac in next few months) be set up
> with 2 user accounts from different TimeMachine backups?  The old iMac
> contains my wife's account, my macbook is the other.  I'd like to get both
> on to the new machine.  Hopefully I will also have an iPad to retire the
> macbook.
>
> Thanks
>
> Russell

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