Free Up Macbook Backup storage

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I deleted maybe about 200GB or more from a music collection I had in iTunes. I deleted them from the iTunes media folder as well as in the recycle bin. I was wondering how do I free up space in my backups? I want to start over with a clean Mac. Thanks in advance
 
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Your Mac's Specs
15" MBP '06 2.33 C2D 4GB 10.7; 13" MBA '14 1.8 i7 8GB 10.11; 21" iMac '13 2.9 i5 8GB 10.11; 6S
If you want to start over with a clean Mac and don't want your backups.

Do a clean reinstall of OS X on your Mac.
After that is done, you're up and running, everything looks good...

Then repartition/format the backup drive and create a new backup.
 

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