Funny about TimeLine – initially I thought it was “ho-hum” when I first got Leopard – now I get nervous when I have not backed up for a while.
So sometimes I want to trigger a backup. Here is the line:
/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper &
Here are some URLs that helped me:
http://www.macworld.com/article/131323/2007/12/tmterm.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/131534/2008/01/tmeye.html?t=101
ALso to check on how things are going on your backup open the console application and put backupd in the search box. It is not to talkative but can give some info on little problems – you see messages like this:
1/21/08 6:50:45 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3102] Starting standard backup
1/21/08 6:50:45 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3102] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
Actually console is a pretty cool application.