One of Leopard’s new features, aimed at ensuring people improve their Backup 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
- 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 |
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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 Linux 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 GrandPerspective |
Apr 10th | JavaScript 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 |