mathiasbynens / mathiasbynens/dotfiles
Can't disable local time machine snapshots in (High) Sierra
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Description
The option in .macos to disable local snapshots (time machine) is redundant, because tmutil does not have the option disablelocal anymore. As far as I know this applies to Sierra and High Sierra.
There is no substitute for this functionality, so the option should be deleted. All you can do is check if any local snapshot is stored (tmutil listlocalsnapshots /) and delete then one by one if necessary (tmutil deletelocalsnapshots [date]).
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Research direction
Open the .macos file and search for the option that invokes tmutil disablelocal. Confirm the command is obsolete for Sierra and High Sierra using the issue details. Done means removing that option without adding a replacement; no test file is mentioned in the issue.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, shell
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 1/5
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- Under an hour
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- Stale
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- Clearly specified
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- 35/100