Leopard, force backup for time machine
29. Januar 2008
Time Machine is a good concept for backups, but when I connect my external harddrive I usually have to wait for 10-45minutes before the backup starts. There are 2 ways to force a backup instantly
- If you still have your time machine icon in the doc, you can ctrl-click it and select ‘backup now’
- If you don’t, as I have because I like to have my dock as simple as possible, you can do it on the cmd-line. Yes cmd-line, hurray, linux forever, ahemm… sorry, short outburst…
here is the command:
/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper