fvalmeida
1/8/2019 - 9:35 PM

How to delete old Time Machine backup with tmutil command.

How to delete old Time Machine backup with tmutil command. (then start and show backup status)

tmutil
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# cat /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default | grep "TimeMachine-for-mba1"

# tmutil destinationinfo

# tmutil listbackups

# tmutil delete <backup_target>

# for ((x=1; x<=3; x++)) ; do tmutil delete "`tmutil listbackups | head -1`" ; done

# tmutil startbackup

# tmutil status

# tmutil status | awk '/_raw_Percent/ {print $3}' | grep -o '[0-9].[0-9]\+' | awk '{print $1*100,"% backed up"}'