Re: Time Machine frequency on Mac Studio

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:39:27 -0800, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote in
<vkdkuv$1n1v8$1@dont-email.me>:

On 2024-12-23 18:29, vallor wrote:

Hello,
 
So I have Time Machine backups on our Mac Studio backing up to our
Synology DiskStation.  But now I'm puzzled.
 
It has the option to back up hourly, daily, or weekly.  Hourly is too
much, and daily is too little -- I'd like to back up every 6 hours.
 
Is there a way to set that up in the gui, or do I need to set up tmutil
jobs in crontab?  Or...?
 
Thanks,
 
 

No.
 
Time Machine backs up every hour.
 
What you are looking at is how it culls it's backups.

Unless I'm mistaken, that turns out not to be the case.  If you
look under "options" in System > General > Time Machine, you'll
see four options for frequency of backup:  Manual, Hourly, Daily, Weekly.

I set it to "Manual", then used TME to set backups for every 6 hours.

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