tmutil

Utility for managing Time Machine backups. Most verbs require root privileges. More information: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/tmutil.8.html.

sudo tmutil setdestination path/to/disk_mount_point

sudo tmutil setdestination "protocol://user[:password]@host/share"

sudo tmutil setdestination -a destination

sudo tmutil enable

sudo tmutil disable

sudo tmutil startbackup

sudo tmutil startbackup -b

sudo tmutil stopbackup