Timeline for Permanently prune backups created by Time Machine
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| Apr 25, 2017 at 21:59 | comment | added | user1256923 | I really suspect I might have to write a bash script so that tmutil prunes out old backups in the background, hopefully speeding the whole exercise up. | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 14:50 | comment | added | dwightk | a workaround might be to use the "when inactive" mode of operation in TimeMachineEditor so that it is running tmutil when you aren't around. | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 14:49 | comment | added | dwightk | yeah... I didn't read down to the: "How does TimeMachineEditor preserve/discard backups? TimeMachineEditor does not change that, it is handled by Time Machine. Time Machine will coalesce and discard backups as described in System Preferences > Time Machine." in the faq | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 14:36 | comment | added | user1256923 | None of these options seems to be 'always delete backups older than X days' to avoid filling up the backup disks and having tmutil delete run in the background. | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 13:25 | history | answered | dwightk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |