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Created February 19, 2010 22:14
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Toggle Time Machine using the defaults command. It may (or may not) be a good idea to run backupd-helper in some way afterwards. See http://github.com/ssp/TMSwitch for slightly more elaborate Time Machine fiddling.
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backupd-helper
/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper -wake
# Run by Time Machine when the system wakes from sleep.
# The command also understands a -attach parameter.
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TMSleep
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine AutoBackup -bool NO
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TMWake
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine AutoBackup -bool YES
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