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I have an iMac with a Fusion drive running High Sierra. Time Machine is enabled and backs up to an external disc.

Time Machine takes daily local snapshots so that you can go back to a specific day, even if you don't plug in your backup disc every day.

Unfortunately, this feature is enabled only on laptops, as the aforelinked page says.

How do I tell Time Machine to enable it on my iMac? I plug in my external disc only once a fortnight to backup, but I'd still like to go back to a particular day's snapshot, say if I overwrote a file.

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  • It used to be sudo tmutil enablelocal but this doesn't work anymore in High Sierra.
    – nohillside ♦
    Nov 25, 2017 at 14:21
  • What version of macOS? Is your iMac running pure SSD or a spinning HDD either as fusion drive or just a HDD?
    – bmike ♦
    Nov 25, 2017 at 15:56
  • @bmike High Sierra with a Fusion Drive. Sorry I forgot to include that information earlier.
    – Kartick Vaddadi
    Nov 26, 2017 at 4:01

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It seems that local snapshots are enabled automatically in High Sierra.

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The text in the red box translates to "local snapshots, as long as disk space is available".

I didn't find something from Appe on this, but this blogpost comes to the same conclusion.

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