Re: AppleScript
Re: AppleScript
- Subject: Re: AppleScript
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 13:35:44 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: AppleScript
I'm guessing that if a backup is deleted TM would respond the same way if a
backup file were corrupted, or damaged, which means it would create a new
backup.
If you don't mind risking your backup data, you could experiment.
On 5/28/10 11:18 AM, "Charlie Dickman" <email@hidden> wrote:
> It is the first. Deleting files from the backup drive is VERY DANGEROUS as
> Time Machine makes incremental backups and it should be the only one to do a
> deletion so that the integrity of the data base is maintained.
>
> Actually, you can "get into" Time Machine with a 'tell Time Machine to
> activate" but that's as far as it goes and it produces an error in the script.
>
> On May 28, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Stockly, Ed wrote:
>
>>
>>> Specifically, I'm trying to find a way to tell Time Machine to delete a
>> backup.
>>
>>
>> What exactly does this mean? TM stores backups as as sparse images on the
>> backup drive. Do you want to delete that, or do you want it to skip doing a
>> backup at a scheduled time or do you want it to stop backing all together?
>> Or is it something else?
>>
>> If it's the first, you may be able to do that just by scripting the finder.
>>
>
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