In order to restore from a Time Machine backup via the command line I can use tmutil with the restore verb like
One the I could not figure out is what exactly the -v option here does. With the option I would write
tmutil's manpage lists -v as an option, but doesn't detail what the option...
After upgrading to High Sierra the "System" storage was 260GB (About This Mac -> Storage). I also used DaisyDisk to confirm that there were "200GB of hidden system files" that can't be shown or deleted.
Turned to our good friend Google and I found that Time Machine local backups were the...
There's the traditional manual page for mtmfs, and there's mention of local Time Machine snapshots in the manual page for tmutil, but here – running release candidate build 16A319 of Mac OS X 10.12 (macOS Sierra) with a MacBookPro11,2 notebook:
no local snapshots
unless I'm missing something...