Re: Switching Time Machine on and off
Re: Switching Time Machine on and off
- Subject: Re: Switching Time Machine on and off
- From: Ron Hunsinger <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 01:14:12 -0700
The defaults mechanism is the wrong way to start/stop background processes.
Normally, you'd be better off using launchctl start/stop, as in:
sudo /bin/launchctl stop com.apple.backupd-auto sudo /bin/launchctl start com.apple.backupd-auto and maybe also stop/start com.apple.backupd-attach, but in this case Time Machine itself provides a way to do it at the command line. Use
sudo /usr/bin/tmutil disable sudo /usr/bin/tmutil enable
to turn automatic backups off/on again. (As always, omit the "sudo" in a command executed using "do shell script ... with administrator privileges".)
On Sep 2, 2012, at 12:09 AM, Ronald Hofmann < email@hidden> wrote: Hi all, for test reasons I sometimes set my macs date back to Jan 1. 2012 and turn it back to today after a couple of minutes. During this period of time I don´t want Time Machine to execute.
Afterwards, when I turn back to today I want Time Machine to run. Unfortunately it doesn´t work as I expected. But what am I doing wrong? Sometimes it looks like it is working.
I realized, when using defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine AutoBackup -bool false in the terminal it´s working fine
but when using defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine AutoBackup -bool false in the terminal I get this: Could not write domain /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine; exiting
Any clues?
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