Show Debug menu in Backup.app

May 10, '06 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: lassowitz

I was playing around tonight, and found a number of advanced logging options available in Backup.app. Quit Backup if it's running, open Terminal (in /Applications -> Utilities), and type in this command:

defaults write com.apple.backup IncludeDebugMenu 1
When you launch Backup the next time, you'll see the new Debug menu. Options there include viewing the log (or the backup log), the ability to choose from a huge number of variables to log, and the option to set some very esoteric preference options, such as Reburn Automate. To disable the debug menu in the future, repeat the above command, but replace 1 with 0.

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