Start Time Machine Backups From Terminal 1
Time Machine
Hey
This is only a quick tip today since I am not feeling to great. If you have ever used Time Machine you can start a backup using the menu bar command. But that is a boring command way of doing things. We like playing with Terminal don’t we. As a result you can easily start a Time Backup with the following in Terminal:
/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper -auto
It is a really pointless little command since it is quicker to use the menu bar option. But if you have been playing around with the Terminal customization post I wrote earlier in the week you may want to add the command as an alias.
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Hi. I have a quick question… My files are being backed-up into my folders so that I have duplicates; i.e. Backup of blahblah and the actual blahblah file. That’s never happened before and I don’t know what changed on my iMac. I want it to stop though. I believe it is doing that when I click Don’t Save, but I’m not sure. It doesn’t seem to be happening all the time so I can’t figure it out. Any ideas on how to make it stop?
Comment By Sally Humphrey on April 27th, at 2:29 pm