{"id":36778,"date":"2022-08-16T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36778"},"modified":"2022-08-15T22:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:18:17","slug":"removing-unwanted-apfs-time-machine-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/16\/removing-unwanted-apfs-time-machine-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Unwanted APFS Time Machine Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derflounder.wordpress.com\/2022\/07\/01\/removing-unwanted-time-machine-backups-from-apfs-formatted-time-machine-backup-drives-on-macos-monterey\/\">Rich Trouton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/derflounder.wordpress.com\/2022\/07\/01\/removing-unwanted-time-machine-backups-from-apfs-formatted-time-machine-backup-drives-on-macos-monterey\/\">\n<p>With APFS-formatted Time Machine backup drives, only the option to restore files is available. The <strong>Delete Backup<\/strong> or <strong>Delete All Backups<\/strong> options are not available.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You can remove unwanted backups using either the Finder, or by using the <code>tmutil<\/code> command line tool.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I like browsing and restoring from APFS Time Machine backups, and they seem much better in theory, but I&rsquo;m tempted to go back to HFS+ because with APFS (at least on Monterey) Spotlight never stops indexing, and there&rsquo;s no way to turn it off. Alas, Disk Utility doesn&rsquo;t even make encrypted HFS+ volumes anymore.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/18\/invasive-spotlight-indexing\/\">Invasive Spotlight Indexing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/19\/should-you-continue-using-hfs\/\">Should You Continue Using HFS+?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/18\/time-machine-evolution-and-apfs\/\">Time Machine Evolution and APFS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Trouton: With APFS-formatted Time Machine backup drives, only the option to restore files is available. The Delete Backup or Delete All Backups options are not available. [&#8230;] You can remove unwanted backups using either the Finder, or by using the tmutil command line tool. I like browsing and restoring from APFS Time Machine backups, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-08-16T02:17:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"d81e3395-bb0c-4364-a7af-2e01986ae778","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-08-16T20:00:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2B4zlbsMQ2Snry4BmGrneA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1395,146,30,2077,1042,216],"class_list":["post-36778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-spotlight","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36779,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36778\/revisions\/36779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}