Heads-up: excluded folders vary depending on use case.
WARNING: DATA ON TIME MACHINE DISK WILL BE PERMANENTLY DELETED.
Encrypted
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Click “Time Machine” menu bar icon and then “Back Up Now” or run tmutil startbackup
.
Heads-up: use tmutil listbackups
to list backups.
$ sudo tmutil delete "/Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Sun’s MacBook Pro/2021-04-05-161636"
Deleting: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Sun’s MacBook Pro/2021-04-05-161636
Deleted (43.5M): /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Sun’s MacBook Pro/2021-04-05-161636
Total deleted: 43.5M
Total deleted: 43.5M
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$ tmutil localsnapshot
Created local snapshot with date: 2021-04-05-162425
Created local snapshot with date: 2021-04-05-162425
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$ tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Snapshots for volume group containing disk /:
com.apple.TimeMachine.2021-04-05-162416.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2021-04-05-162425.local
Heads-up: use
umount /tmp/snapshot
to unmount snapshot.
Heads-up: replace
com.apple.TimeMachine.2021-04-05-162416.local
with snapshot from List local APFS snapshots.
mkdir -p /tmp/snapshot
mount_apfs -s com.apple.TimeMachine.2021-04-05-162416.local / /tmp/snapshot
open /tmp/snapshot
Restart computer and press cmd+r to boot to recovery mode.
Select “Restore From Time Machine Backup”, then “Macintosh HD”, choose local snapshot, click “Continue” and “Continue” again to confirm.
Heads-up: use
tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates
to list local snapshot dates.
$ tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2021-04-05-162416
Deleted local snapshot '2021-04-05-162416'
Deleted local snapshot '2021-04-05-162416'
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$ tmutil deletelocalsnapshots /
Deleted 1 Time Machine local snapshots for volume group containing disk '/'
com.apple.TimeMachine.2021-04-05-162425.local
Deleted 1 Time Machine local snapshots for volume group containing disk '/'
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