Subcommands28 subcommands
tmutil version
Print the current version
tmutil enable
Turn on automatic backups (required root + full disk access)
tmutil disable
Turn off automatic backups (required root + full disk access)
tmutil startbackup
Begin a backup if one is not already running
tmutil stopbackup
Cancel a backup currently in progress
tmutil delete
Deletes backups with the specified timestamp from the backup volume mounted at the given mountpoint
tmutil deleteinprogress
Delete all in-progress backups for a machine directory
tmutil restore
Restore the item `source`, which is inside a backup, to the location `destination`. Same semantics as `cp`
tmutil compare
Perform a backup diff
tmutil setdestination
Configure a local HFS+ or APFS volume, AFP share, or SMB share as a backup destination (requires root + Full Disk Access)
tmutil removedestination
Remove the destination with the specified unique identifier from the Time Machine configuration (requires root + Full Disk Access)
tmutil destinationinfo
Print information about destinations currently configured for use with Time Machine
tmutil addexclusion
Configure an exclusion that tells Time Machine not to backup a file, directory, or volume during future backups
tmutil removeexclusion
Configure Time Machine to backup a file, directory, or volume during future backups
tmutil isexcluded
Determine if a file, directory, or volume are excluded from Time Machine backups
tmutil inheritbackup
Claim a machine directory or sparsebundle for use by the current machine
tmutil associatedisk
Bind a volume store directory to the specified local disk, thereby reconfiguring the backup history (requires root + Full Disk Access)
tmutil latestbackup
List this computer's latest completed backup
tmutil listbackups
List all of this computer's completed backups
tmutil machinedirectory
Print the path to the current machine directory for this computer
tmutil calculatedrift
Analyze the backups in an HFS machine directory and determine the amount of change between each
tmutil uniquesize
Analyze the specified path in an HFS+ backup or path to an APFS backup and determine its unique size
tmutil verifychecksums
Compute a checksum of data contained within a backup and verify the results against checksum information computed at the time of backup
tmutil localsnapshot
Create new local Time Machine snapshots of all APFS volumes included in the Time Machine backup
tmutil listlocalsnapshots
List local Time Machine snapshots of the specified volume
tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates
List the creation dates of all local Time Machine snapshots
tmutil deletelocalsnapshots
Delete all local Time Machine snapshots on all mounted disks for the specified date or on the given disk
tmutil thinlocalsnapshots
Think local Time Machine snapshots for the specified volume
