Re: Time Machine frequency on Mac Studio

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:39:27 -0800, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote in
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On 2024-12-23 18:29, vallor wrote:

Hello,
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So I have Time Machine backups on our Mac Studio backing up to our
Synology DiskStation.  But now I'm puzzled.
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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.
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Is there a way to set that up in the gui, or do I need to set up tmutil
jobs in crontab?  Or...?
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Thanks,
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No.
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Time Machine backs up every hour.
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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.