{
  "name": "tmutil",
  "description": "Time Machine utility",
  "subcommands": [
    {
      "name": "version",
      "description": "Print the current version"
    },
    {
      "name": "enable",
      "description": "Turn on automatic backups (required root + full disk access)"
    },
    {
      "name": "disable",
      "description": "Turn off automatic backups (required root + full disk access)"
    },
    {
      "name": "startbackup",
      "description": "Begin a backup if one is not already running",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-a",
            "--auto"
          ],
          "description": "Run the backup in a mode similar to system-scheduled backups"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-b",
            "--block"
          ],
          "description": "Wait (block) until the backup is finished before exiting"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-r",
            "--rotation"
          ],
          "description": "Allow automatic destination rotation during backup"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-d",
            "--destination"
          ],
          "description": "Perform the backup to the destination corresponding to the specified ID",
          "args": [
            {
              "name": "destination id"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "stopbackup",
      "description": "Cancel a backup currently in progress"
    },
    {
      "name": "delete",
      "description": "Deletes backups with the specified timestamp from the backup volume mounted at the given mountpoint",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-d"
          ],
          "description": "Delete from the given mount point",
          "args": [
            {
              "name": "backup mount point"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-t"
          ],
          "description": "Delete backups with this timestamp",
          "isRepeatable": -1,
          "args": [
            {
              "name": "timestamp"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-p"
          ],
          "description": "A specific path to delete (HFS backup disk)",
          "args": [
            {
              "name": "path",
              "template": "filepaths"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "deleteinprogress",
      "description": "Delete all in-progress backups for a machine directory",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "machine directory"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "restore",
      "description": "Restore the item `source`, which is inside a backup, to the location `destination`. Same semantics as `cp`",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-v"
          ],
          "description": "Be verbose, showing files as they are copied"
        }
      ],
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "source",
          "isVariadic": true
        },
        {
          "name": "destination"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "compare",
      "description": "Perform a backup diff",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-@"
          ],
          "description": "Compare extended attributes"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-a"
          ],
          "description": "Compare all supported metadata"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-c"
          ],
          "description": "Compare creation times"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-d"
          ],
          "description": "Compare file data forks"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-e"
          ],
          "description": "Compare ACLs"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-f"
          ],
          "description": "Compare file flags"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-g"
          ],
          "description": "Compare GIDs"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-h"
          ],
          "description": "Unknown"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-l"
          ],
          "description": "Unknown"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-m"
          ],
          "description": "Compare file modes"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-n"
          ],
          "description": "No metadata comparison"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-s"
          ],
          "description": "Compare sizes"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-t"
          ],
          "description": "Compare modification times"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-u"
          ],
          "description": "Compare UIDs"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-E"
          ],
          "description": "Don't take exclusions into account when comparing items inside volumes"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-U"
          ],
          "description": "Ignore logical volume identity (volume UUIDs) when directly comparing a local volume or volume store to a volume store"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-X"
          ],
          "description": "Print output in XML property list format"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-D"
          ],
          "description": "Limit traversal depth to depth levels from the beginning of iteration",
          "args": [
            {
              "name": "depth"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-I"
          ],
          "description": "Ignore paths with a path component equal to name during iteration",
          "isRepeatable": -1,
          "args": [
            {
              "name": "name"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "backup or path"
        },
        {
          "name": "path (if not backup)",
          "isOptional": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "setdestination",
      "description": "Configure a local HFS+ or APFS volume, AFP share, or SMB share as a backup destination (requires root + Full Disk Access)",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-a"
          ],
          "description": "Add the arg to the list of destinations, instead of replacing the list"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-p"
          ],
          "description": "Enter a password in a non-echoing interactive prompt"
        }
      ],
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "destination"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "removedestination",
      "description": "Remove the destination with the specified unique identifier from the Time Machine configuration (requires root + Full Disk Access)",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "destination id"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "destinationinfo",
      "description": "Print information about destinations currently configured for use with Time Machine",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-X"
          ],
          "description": "Print output in XML plist format"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "addexclusion",
      "description": "Configure an exclusion that tells Time Machine not to backup a file, directory, or volume during future backups",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-p"
          ],
          "description": "Configure fixed-path exclusions"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-v"
          ],
          "description": "Configure volume exclusions"
        }
      ],
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "item",
          "isVariadic": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "removeexclusion",
      "description": "Configure  Time Machine to backup a file, directory, or volume during future backups",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-p"
          ],
          "description": "Configure fixed-path exclusions"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-v"
          ],
          "description": "Configure volume exclusions"
        }
      ],
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "item",
          "isVariadic": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "isexcluded",
      "description": "Determine if a file, directory, or volume are excluded from Time Machine backups",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "item",
          "isVariadic": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "inheritbackup",
      "description": "Claim a machine directory or sparsebundle for use by the current machine",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "machine directory or sparsebundle"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "associatedisk",
      "description": "Bind a volume store directory to the specified local disk, thereby reconfiguring the backup history (requires root + Full Disk Access)",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-a"
          ],
          "description": "Find all volume stores in the same machine directory that match the identity of the volume backup directory"
        }
      ],
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "mount point"
        },
        {
          "name": "volume backup directory"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "latestbackup",
      "description": "List this computer's latest completed backup",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-d"
          ],
          "description": "Specify a destination volume to list backups from"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-m"
          ],
          "description": "Attempt to mount the backups and list their mounted paths",
          "dependsOn": [
            "-d"
          ]
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-t"
          ],
          "description": "Only show the backup timestampt rather than the full name or path",
          "dependsOn": [
            "-m"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "listbackups",
      "description": "List all of this computer's completed backups",
      "options": [
        {
          "names": [
            "-d"
          ],
          "description": "Specify a destination volume to list backups from"
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-m"
          ],
          "description": "Attempt to mount the backups and list their mounted paths",
          "dependsOn": [
            "-d"
          ]
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "-t"
          ],
          "description": "Only show the backup timestampt rather than the full name or path",
          "dependsOn": [
            "-m"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "machinedirectory",
      "description": "Print the path to the current machine directory for this computer"
    },
    {
      "name": "calculatedrift",
      "description": "Analyze the backups in an HFS machine directory and determine the amount of change between each",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "machine directory"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "uniquesize",
      "description": "Analyze the specified path in an HFS+ backup or path to an APFS backup and determine its unique size",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "path",
          "isVariadic": true,
          "template": "filepaths"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "verifychecksums",
      "description": "Compute a checksum of data contained within a backup and verify the results against checksum information computed at the time of backup",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "path",
          "isVariadic": true,
          "template": "filepaths"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "localsnapshot",
      "description": "Create new local Time Machine snapshots of all APFS volumes included in the Time Machine backup"
    },
    {
      "name": "listlocalsnapshots",
      "description": "List local Time Machine snapshots of the specified volume",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "mount point"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "listlocalsnapshotdates",
      "description": "List the creation dates of all local Time Machine snapshots",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "mount point",
          "isOptional": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "deletelocalsnapshots",
      "description": "Delete all local Time Machine snapshots on all mounted disks for the specified date or on the given disk",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "mount point or snapshot date",
          "isOptional": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "thinlocalsnapshots",
      "description": "Think local Time Machine snapshots for the specified volume",
      "args": [
        {
          "name": "mount point"
        },
        {
          "name": "purge amount (bytes)",
          "isOptional": true
        },
        {
          "name": "urgency",
          "isOptional": true,
          "suggestions": [
            "1",
            "2",
            "3",
            "4"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}