remove or undo a terminal script

[swope1221]

Hi everyone. I ran a script that deletes time machine backups older than a certain number of days. My question is how do I reverse this? I want to basically undo remove the effects of the script. Thanks.

Eric

 

[Weaselboy]

There is no easy way to undo a delete like that. If you used commercial a data recovery application, you might be able to recovery some of the deleted data.

 

[swope1221]

Hi Weasel, thanks for your response. I wasn't clear in what I wanted. I want what the script does, but apparently it keeps these settings permanently. I.e. It deletes all time machine backups older than 10 days, but keeps doing this. Is there a script I can run to remove the settings this script creates, so it doesn't always delete backups older than 10 days.

 

[Weaselboy]

Can you post the script and explain how you are running it.

 

[swope1221]

Here's a link to the script https://github.com/emcrisostomo/Time-Machine-Cleanup
I'm just running it in terminal.

 

[chrfr]

Here's a link to the script https://github.com/emcrisostomo/Time-Machine-Cleanup
I'm just running it in terminal.

That page has the step on how to stop it. From the directory where you copied the scripts, enter

sudo make uninstall

in Terminal.

 

[swope1221]

Thanks chrfr. I wasn't sure if that uninstalled the script or just broke the symbolic link.

 

[chrfr]

Thanks chrfr. I wasn't sure if that uninstalled the script or just broke the symbolic link.

The documentation explains it. The uninstall removes the links; you would remove the scripts by deleting that folder.