On 2025-01-30 at 16:44:53 UTC-0500 (Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:44:53 +1100)
leo <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:
On 31 Jan 2025, at 7:51, Bill Cole wrote:
On 2025-01-30 at 02:10:17 UTC-0500 (Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:10:17 +1100)
leo <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:
On 30 Jan 2025, at 10:41, Shoshanna Green wrote:
[...]
(Whenever I'm updating an app, I generally compress my current
version of it first. That way, I can easily revert if I find I need
to.)
Good strategy! But what if you have forgotten and you are on teh go
and don’t have your backup?
But you likely do, if you are running a modern OS on APFS...
If you run "tmutil listbackups" you'll see all of the backups
TimeMachine thinks that it has.
Cool! So this should work without the Time Machine disk connected?
It may vary by OS version, but it has worked for me on every APFS system
I've used through Sonoma (v14.) It shows (according to the man page)
both local snapshots on the system disk and backups on external disks.
The 'diskutil apfs listSnapshots' command will show you which of those
are APFS snapshot.
Thanks for the interesting tip!
However, when I try this on my travel laptop I get the output “_No
machine directory found for host._”
That's interesting. I didn't think that tmutil depended on the backup
disk to list backups, but I guess I was wrong. Note that if you have a
very full disk, there may be no local snashots extant because the OS
cleans them up to make space as needed.
I am running APFS (Encrypted) on macOS 12.7.6. Time Machine is
enabled, but the Time Machine disk is of course at home.
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