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Turning off Time Machine in macOS Ventura?
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I really have looked but can't find it. They seem to have removed the ability to view the sizes of the backup or excluded items, so maybe they removed this as well?
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There is no longer a switch to turn Time Machine on and off. But under the Options button you can change the backup interval to Manual, which gives the same result. Excluded items live there too.
or just don't set a backup drive. i use carbon copy cloner (since forever), and never use TM... and never see it, anywhere.
A great workaround, thanks! That will work perfectly when I want to stop Time Machine from doing backups without having to unmount the drives. But weird that Apple removed the option to turn it off easily from the main page.
Thanks, I already had the TM icon enabled in the menu bar. But as far as I can tell, there's no way to toggle TM on or off from that drop-down menu. Would have been very nice though.
Maybe the idea is to make it even harder for someone to inadvertently disable Time Machine. I imagine most people would rarely want to do disable it, and even less so disable/reenable it frequently.
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I had a volume go bad and removed it, and now TM tries to run once an hour uselessly to an endpoint that doesn't exist and lets me know about it when it fails.
Also:
I got there and disabled it (thanks @ThemePro ), but wow that's messy.
Also:
tmutil: disable requires Full Disk Access privileges.
To allow this operation, select Full Disk Access in the Privacy
tab of the Security & Privacy preference pane, and add Terminal
to the list of applications which are allowed Full Disk Access.I got there and disabled it (thanks @ThemePro ), but wow that's messy.
Yes!
I've done a few internet recoveries for people using a TM backup (who are not tech savvy). It takes ~6x as long as restoring from CCC clone.
Recovering from the clone is faster, but if they aren't tech savvy, it's easier to get the TM backups. I would never consider using my TM backup for a full system restore, but it works great for restoring a single file from last week. My clones are only ran once a month, second Tuesday...which is today!
