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Mike Rousseau

Q: Time machine time capsule at night

I have 3 computers in the house.

Lpoking at Time capsule for backing up about 1.8Tb total

I Want the backups to run at night to avoid wifi drain.

suggestions appreciated:

time me capsule or other hard drive?

how to run Backups at night?

Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 25, 2015 8:23 AM

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  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Oct 25, 2015 8:48 AM in response to Mike Rousseau
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    Oct 25, 2015 8:48 AM in response to Mike Rousseau

    to avoid wifi drain

    The best way to avoid punishing your Wi-Fi performance is to not have much to Backup at any one time, and to do it slowly, in the background, at low priority while you continue to work.

     

    That is the way Time Machine does its business.

     

    Except for the first Backup, Time Machine does incremental Backups, only saving what has recently changed, not everything. It depends on what is already saved as a base. There is no need to leave its backup until midnight, because it only does a modest amount at a time, and does so slowly.

     

    Time Machine is not the best Backup utility for all situations. But it is the Backup that gets done, because it does NOT wait later, it just plods along in the Background.

     

    In a very quiet way, Time Machine is another feature that lives up to the label, "insanely great!".

  • by Mike Rousseau,

    Mike Rousseau Mike Rousseau Oct 25, 2015 8:54 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
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    Oct 25, 2015 8:54 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

    TThanks.   I have used crash plan in the past but their service vs Hard drives tilts it back to doing myself.   the major volume of the 1.8 TB is Final Cut projects and photos.  Things that can not be replaced.  What about time machine scheduler.?

    http://www.klieme.com/TimeMachineScheduler.html

  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,Helpful

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Oct 25, 2015 9:46 AM in response to Mike Rousseau
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    Oct 25, 2015 9:46 AM in response to Mike Rousseau

    When I first looked into Time Machine, the first thing I wanted was a way to delay its backups to occur less frequently. Like you, I wanted to be sure that backups did not interfere with foreground work I wanted to get done, and I was backing up everything from every Mac in the house all at once.

     

    Once I found that there was A way (any way) to reschedule its backups to more convenient times, I proceeded to turn Time Machine on anyway, figuring I could use those other techniques later, when its performance proved too intrusive.

     

    It never proved too intrusive. I never looked further into rescheduling. For me, Time Machine lives up to its hype.

     

    As I said above, the one exception is your initial backup. For that, it may pay to take your most active machine and hook it up by Ethernet cable until the initial Backup completes, just to save time. After that, I expect you will find, as I did, "It just works".