[OSX-Users] Re: backing up while on road away from time capsule

[Chris Andrews]

On Thursday, 15 September 2011 at 11:45, Jules wrote:
>  Lion will continue to do Time Machine backups to spare space on your laptop's own hard disk while it's away from its Time Capsule. Obviously this is no protection against disk failure, but it does provide protection against accidental file deletion or corruption.
Most of the time, yes, it will. Sometimes, this non-GUI option turns itself off and you don't get local snapshotting (such as on my Air - no idea why). To find out if you've got it enabled, open a Terminal and run:

tmutil snapshot

If that errors out, it's disabled and you can run:

sudo tmutil enablelocal

to switch it back on.

Chris
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