How to "time" Time Machine

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How to "time" Time Machine

I have a MacBookPro that is backing up to a TC. It backs up all the time. Often, multiple times a day. Sometimes 50Meg, sometimes 200Meg...whatever.

I have gone into settings for Time Machine as well as the Time Capsule, and can not find how to adjust this. I would like it to be manual. The problem is that I stream music a lot and it will hog bandwidth for anywhere between 2 minutes to 15 minutes. I can stop it in the middle, but it will try again after an hour or so.

Any suggestions??? Thanks!

macBookPro, 2.4Ghz, 160HD, 2Mb Ram, Mac OS X (10.5.5), Time Capsule, 500gig, Router with Draft N,

Posted on Dec 31, 2008 7:58 AM

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DonH49

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Dec 31, 2008 8:11 AM in response to skipwood444

just go to the TM pane within system preferences and turn TM off. Then you can do a manual backup anytime you feel like doing it.

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Jan 2, 2009 9:45 AM in response to DonH49

Smokerz - Well, that was a big "no duh". I should have thought of that, but simple solutions often float by me!

I was thinking that there may be something fancier that would allow for more control of the feature, but maybe I'm expecting too much 🙂 I mean, you can choose how regular ME syncs...you'd a thunk they would have a similar feature for TM.

Thanks!

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