My only Mac is a Powerbook. Time Machine is an integral part of my backup strategy. I do manual backups once or twice a day. How difficult is it to create a script that will do an immediate Time Machine backup? Is Time Machine scriptable?
Powerbook G4 12-inch (PPC) 1.25GB RAM,
Mac OS X (10.5.1),
iPhone - shuffle
There's no AppleScript dictionary for Time Machine so while it maybe AppleScriptable, it's not documented. There is a shell script that can be called from AppleScript that will start a backup. I found it online:
do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper >/dev/null 2>&1 &"
That will start a backup immediately. Hope this helps.
There's no AppleScript dictionary for Time Machine so while it maybe AppleScriptable, it's not documented. There is a shell script that can be called from AppleScript that will start a backup. I found it online:
do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper >/dev/null 2>&1 &"
That will start a backup immediately. Hope this helps.