I have a time machine backup drive that I have renamed to Home Backup. Whenever I forget to take backups, OS X tells me "you haven't backed up to the drive My Passport for 10 days"
Running tmutil destinationinfo
I get this:
Name : My Passport
Kind : Local
Mount Point : /Volumes/Home Backup
ID : XXXXXXX-XXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXX
I looked in the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
file, but it doesn't contain the destination name.
How can I get the volume name and the time machine internal name to match again?
To be clear, this is more of an annoyance than a problem, the backups work flawlessly when I remember to give OS X the Home Backup disk when it asks for My Passport. 🙂
Best Answer
Right click the My Passport drive and go to Get Info and change the name in the "Name and Extension" section