Re: Time Machine frequency on Mac Studio

On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:58:11 +0100, Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote
in <vkujf4$1jbqr$1@solani.org>:

On 24.12.24 03:29, vallor wrote:

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.

 
Keep the HD plugged and it does not matter. The amount of data remains
the same. Hourly is a very reasonable period.

I agree in principle, but I get about the same changes every six
hours as every hour, since the Mac isn't used very often.  There's
overhead in determining the changes to back up.  I'd just rather
not run backups so often.  TME is a good solution for that.

The backups were going to a Synology Diskstation.  Finally decided
to speed that up a bit, so I got a nice 4TB NVMe/USB 3.2 drive,
a SanDisk Extreme Pro.  Plugged that into my Linux workstation and
set up Samba for Time Machine.  Now I use that for
Time Machine backups from the Mac, as well as Timeshift
backups from Linux Mint.

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