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jhtoppin Author

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Time Machine logs

Where are the log files from Time Machine backups saves?

Mac mini, macOS 10.14

Posted on Mar 11, 2019 5:51 PM

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leroydouglas

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Posted on Mar 11, 2019 5:57 PM

Where are the log files from Time Machine backups saves?

You can see the TM log file from the terminal.app copy and paste:


printf '\e[3J' && log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info --last 6h | grep -F 'eMac' | grep -Fv 'etat' | awk -F']' '{print substr($0,1,19), $NF}'

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leroydouglas

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Mar 11, 2019 5:57 PM in response to jhtoppin

Where are the log files from Time Machine backups saves?

You can see the TM log file from the terminal.app copy and paste:


printf '\e[3J' && log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info --last 6h | grep -F 'eMac' | grep -Fv 'etat' | awk -F']' '{print substr($0,1,19), $NF}'

Mar 11, 2019 7:17 PM in response to jhtoppin

This was very helpful and gives me a great start to determine when something happened. Thank you.

Good computing jhtoppin !

jhtoppin Author

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Mar 11, 2019 7:14 PM in response to leroydouglas

This was very helpful and gives me a great start to determine when something happened. Thank you.

Time Machine logs