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Enabling/Disabling Time Machine

Tuesday, July 20 2010 @ 09:33 AM BST
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You need to enable/disable Time Machine from command line like in a CRON job ?


#to enable
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine "AutoBackup" -boolean yes
# to disable
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine "AutoBackup" -boolean no

Note that disabling TM doesn't stop the current backup operation if already started…

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