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| do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper & " |
This seems to accomplish what I wanted at least:
/usr/bin/tmutil startbackup --auto --block
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I think you’d need to do:
do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper" with administrator privilegesbut even so, it doesn’t seem to do anything in 10.9.3.