Timeline for How to force a Time Machine deep traversal?
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| Oct 21, 2012 at 1:55 | comment | added | Gary | Okay so I just used the Time Machine interface and hit "Remove Disk", then re-added it. I still don't get a deep traversal. I know this because the "Preparing backup" phase took 12 minutes, when yesterday I actually did perform a deep traversal when it took 120 minutes to complete, which is exactly what I want now but am unable to figure out how to do so. | |
| Oct 21, 2012 at 1:33 | comment | added | Gary |
How do you set the Time Machine destination to nothing? tmutil setdestination requires a path as an argument, doesn't it? (Or I guess just select the backup disk then hit "Remove disk" to de-select it?) I'm stuck in an awful position. Time Machine is creating a new backup whenever I try to backup (I cancel it before it deletes my old backups), so I want to force it to perform a deep traversal so that it sees that most files in fact have not changed since the last backup.
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| May 29, 2012 at 22:57 | history | edited | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 29, 2012 at 18:34 | history | edited | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
mention tmutil compare
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| May 29, 2012 at 17:28 | history | answered | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |