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Leopard: Make Time Machine Run Backup Now
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How to make the Leopard Time Machine run the backup right now.
1. Run Terminal from the Utilities folder.
2. Type /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle
/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper &
The ampersand at the end runs the backup in the background.
Alternately, you can right-click/control click on the Time Machine icon in the dock and click Back Up Now.
2 Comments
Ms. Wahala
January 21st, 2008
at 10:48pm
I’m going to need this for later. My MacBook Pro has been bugging me for some Leopard for a while now.
I hear the update is going to have over 100 bug fixes? To which I said, there were over 100 bugs? lol…
eagleapex
November 17th, 2008
at 7:54am
I used your command and made an Automator program to run that shell script. Then I set the shortcut button on my LaCie external drive to run the backup program. Thanks!