Launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/-machine-intervals. tmp/.logĪnd save it as ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ and then load it into launchd with this command in Terminal: While this is not identical to true system-scheduled backups, it provides custom schedulers the ability to achieve some (but not all) behavior normally exhibited when operating in automatic mode.Ĭombine that with launchd and you can have tmutil run every 15 minutes, take this: The -auto option provides a supported mechanism with which to trigger "automatic-like" backups, similar to automatic backups that are scheduled by the system. destination Perform the backup to the destination corresponding to the specified ID. rotation Allow automatic destination rotation during the backup. block Wait (block) until the backup is finished before exiting. Requires Personal Hotspot service through your carrier. Instant Hotspot requires an iPhone or iPad with cellular connectivity with a Lightning connector and iOS 8.1 or later. Handoff requires an iPhone or iPad with a Lightning connector and iOS 8 or later. auto Run the backup in a mode similar to system-scheduled backups. Continuity Camera requires an iPhone or iPad with a Lightning connector and iOS 12 or later. If you're sure this is something that you want to do, I think the best way to try it is to use the tmutil (Time Machine utility).īegin a backup if one is not already running. To answer the question as asked originally: Yes, you address names with a space either enclosed by " " or escaped with a \. Both of those details just happened to have conspired to hide behind a smokescreen that shouted "no spaces allowed".
Thus, in conclusion, tmutil works wonderfully with Volumes which have spaces in their names, but you have to be conscious of the root partition, which will not be addressed under its name, but as /. Succesfully excluded "MacOS Mojave", as I could see in TM's preferences pane. And then, running sudo tmutil addexclusion -v "/"
On another partition with a space in it, which just happened to not be my root partition at the time, I did not get an error, thus eliminating the theory that the error was caused by a space at all. The first giveaway for that was running a ls -al /Volumes, which gave an output of lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 26 Aug 13:22 MacOS Mojave -> /Īt first I didn't think too much of it, after all it's just an alias, right?īut when I ran sudo tmutil addexclusion -v "/Volumes/MacOS Catalina" So, thanks to some valuable help from the commenters, I was able to determine, that the partition with the space in the name was also my root partition, and as that to tmutil only visible as /. Quotes work when I use them on volume names without spaces, but that is not really the point here. Man tmutil doesn't really go into any details about spaces or special characters in their documentation on those commands, escaping characters and quoting the paths are both ways to do this usually, but apparently not in this case.
Volumes/MacOS\ Mojave: The operation couldn’t be completed. Or even sudo tmutil removeexclusion -v /Volumes/MacOS\ Mojave OK, that one was still pretty obvious, but now, what about sudo tmutil removeexclusion -v "/Volumes/MacOS Mojave"
#DOES TIMEMACHINEEDITOR WORK WITH MOJAVE SOFTWARE#
Volumes/MacOS Mojave: The operation couldn’t be completed. TimeMachineEditor is a software for macOS that lets you change the default one-hour backup interval of Time Machine.
I am trying to write a simple electron script to switch between my different time machine backups, but I have gotten somewhat stuck because tmutil keeps throwing errors when a volume name has a space in it, just as in sudo tmutil removeexclusion -v /Volumes/MacOS Mojave
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