Time Machine

One of new features, aimed at ensuring people improve their habits and enabling intuitive restore.

Freeing up local snapshots

If you find that the hourly snapshotting feature (which uses your internal storage) is taking up too much storage for your liking, you can toggle it off and on again to free up space:


sudo tmutil disablelocal
  1. Wait for it to be freed up automatically
    sudo tmutil enablelocal

Or, in Big Sur, you can just

sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots /

Resources:

Date Link Notes
2014
Jan 20 Time Warp a tool for modifying Time Machine’s backup behavior using weighted reservoir sampling.
2012
Aug 3 Time Machine Editor An alternative scheduler that does away with the irritating defaults.
2011
Sep 18 Mass Deploying Time Machine in Mac OS X Lion All you ever wanted to know about scripting and CLI usage of it, from changing destinations to setting exclusions.
2009
Oct 16 10.6: Create networkable, encrypted and copyable Time Machine backups Very neat. I’ve saved a local copy of the scripts for creating and restoring from encrypted disk images.
Feb 28 Time Vault A equivalent, still under development.
2008
May 11th Time Machine Exposed! Using the tms command line tool to explore backups
May 9th Prune Your Time Machine Backups Selectively Using a modified version of
Apr 10th clone of the UI Pretty damn impressive
Mar 5th Time Machine a pretty good rundown, complete with under-the-hood details
2006
Aug 8 MacWorld First Looks article Where it is mentioned that it was supposed to work in oh, slightly different ways

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