tmutil

macos

Utility for managing Time Machine backups.

Examples (8)

Set an HFS+ drive as the backup destination

sudo tmutil setdestination path/to/disk_mount_point

Set an APF share or SMB share as the backup destination

sudo tmutil setdestination "protocol://user[:password]@host/share"

Append the given destination to the list of destinations

sudo tmutil setdestination -a destination

Enable automatic backups

sudo tmutil enable

Disable automatic backups

sudo tmutil disable

Start a backup, if one is not running already, and release control of the shell

sudo tmutil startbackup

Start a backup and block until the backup is finished

sudo tmutil startbackup -b

Stop a backup

sudo tmutil stopbackup