HT201250 How Do I Pause a Time Machine Backup??????????

Mavericks Option is to 'Skip Backup'??? NO APPLE HELP AVAILABLE. Help Center has wrong info. No STOP Backup Option on Mavericks. No Apple contact info on site or anywhere I can find in the 15 minutes I've been searching.

I am in the middle of a very long initial backup. I wanted to pause and resume the backup without losing the first half of the backup. Mavericks Time Machine offers a 'Skip This Backup' option. No Pause option. No Stop option. And no Apple documentation or Help. Apple Help Center tells me to hit 'Stop'. Apparently no one at Apple thought to update the documenation with Mavericks eight months ago.

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