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sudo tmutil snapshot Is this what time machine automatically does every hour? Or is it a different feature? Is this the local one or the one on a remote disk?
by carlob 9y ago
sudo tmutil snapshot
Is this what time machine automatically does every hour? Or is it a different feature? Is this the local one or the one on a remote disk?
- carlob 9y agoI'm gonna answer these myself. Apparently sudo tmutil snapshot is the local snapshot, not the remote backup and it has existed as a verb since way before APFS existed. So now I guess the question is: did the implementation of local snapshots change with APFS?
- thought_alarm 9y agoYes. They talked about APFS and the new local Time Machine implementation at WWDC. You can view the dates of your local snapshots dates with: tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates / I have one from last week, two from yesterday, and two from today.
- mrpippy 9y agoYes, I'm pretty sure it did. I seem to remember one of the APFS sessions at WWDC (either 2016 or 2017) had a demo about how local TM snapshots used to work (really kind of a hack), and how APFS would improve the situation dramatically.
- rconti 9y agoDoes anyone happen to know if the new Time Machine backups are automagically better (upgraded), or should I start over with a fresh backup destination?
- thought_alarm 9y agoThe new implementation only applies to local time machine backups. Backups to external drives have not changed.
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- ssalazars 9y agoIs there a way to move this backup to any other storage mechanism, say Dropbox?