tmutil

Time Machine utility

Subcommands

Name	Description
`version`	Print the current version
`enable`	Turn on automatic backups (required root + full disk access)
`disable`	Turn off automatic backups (required root + full disk access)
`startbackup`	Begin a backup if one is not already running
`stopbackup`	Cancel a backup currently in progress
`delete`	Deletes backups with the specified timestamp from the backup volume mounted at the given mountpoint
`deleteinprogress`	Delete all in-progress backups for a machine directory
`restore`	Restore the item `source`, which is inside a backup, to the location `destination`. Same semantics as `cp`
`compare`	Perform a backup diff
`setdestination`	Configure a local HFS+ or APFS volume, AFP share, or SMB share as a backup destination (requires root + Full Disk Access)
`removedestination`	Remove the destination with the specified unique identifier from the Time Machine configuration (requires root + Full Disk Access)
`destinationinfo`	Print information about destinations currently configured for use with Time Machine
`addexclusion`	Configure an exclusion that tells Time Machine not to backup a file, directory, or volume during future backups
`removeexclusion`	Configure Time Machine to backup a file, directory, or volume during future backups
`isexcluded`	Determine if a file, directory, or volume are excluded from Time Machine backups
`inheritbackup`	Claim a machine directory or sparsebundle for use by the current machine
`associatedisk`	Bind a volume store directory to the specified local disk, thereby reconfiguring the backup history (requires root + Full Disk Access)
`latestbackup`	List this computer's latest completed backup
`listbackups`	List all of this computer's completed backups
`machinedirectory`	Print the path to the current machine directory for this computer
`calculatedrift`	Analyze the backups in an HFS machine directory and determine the amount of change between each
`uniquesize`	Analyze the specified path in an HFS+ backup or path to an APFS backup and determine its unique size
`verifychecksums`	Compute a checksum of data contained within a backup and verify the results against checksum information computed at the time of backup
`localsnapshot`	Create new local Time Machine snapshots of all APFS volumes included in the Time Machine backup
`listlocalsnapshots`	List local Time Machine snapshots of the specified volume
`listlocalsnapshotdates`	List the creation dates of all local Time Machine snapshots
`deletelocalsnapshots`	Delete all local Time Machine snapshots on all mounted disks for the specified date or on the given disk
`thinlocalsnapshots`	Think local Time Machine snapshots for the specified volume