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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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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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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}' 

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