Re: Time Machine frequency on Mac Studio

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 08:19:04 GMT, Percival John Hackworth
<pjh@nanoworks.com> wrote in <Y7uaP.52234$Uup4.3003@fx10.iad>:

On Dec 23, 2024 at 6:29:13 PM PST, "vallor" <vallor@cultnix.org> 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,

 
I use TimeMachineEditor to set my own schedule of when Time Machine
runs.
 
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26704/timemachineeditor
 
You turn off the automatic scheduler and set your own using the Editor.
It creates a Launch schedule to at specific intervals or on a calendar
intervals.
I currently take Time Machine backups at 3 hour intervals throughout the
day.
 
The initial thought for the built-in schedule is that TM would run
hourly during "normal working hours", then infrequently after hours.
Backups older than 24 hours are consolidated to a single backup. Backups
older than 3 months are consolidated to weekly backups.
 
Apple has articles on how it runs on their site and this article goes
into more detail. Howard also has utilities to check Time Machine.
 
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/03/01/how-does-time-machine-make-a-backup/

Thank you very much.  No trouble installing and setting up TME, once I got
past the annoying ads on macupdate.com.  (Among other things, it tried
to get me to install Avast -- are you kidding me? ;)

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