mrchow19910319 Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 I have an external HDD connected to my Mac. It would be nice to type in "backup" then time machine will started to start a new backup. Link to comment
dfay Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Just call the script described here: http://www.macworld.com/article/2033804/control-time-machine-from-the-command-line.html i.e. create a Keyword then connect it to a Run Script /bin/bash object with the script: tmutil startbackup Link to comment
mrchow19910319 Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 20 hours ago, dfay said: Thanks. It worked. For anyone who is too lazy to do it themselves, here is how to do it. dfay and Southgirl 2 Link to comment
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