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How do you schedule the frequency of the time machine backups?

How do you schedule the frequency of the time machine backups? This is backing up like every 2 hours. Eating up disk space. I can't find out how to change or schedule the backups anywhere like older OS versions allowed.

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Oct 7, 2021 4:06 PM

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Posted on Oct 7, 2021 6:29 PM

You cannot. Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full.

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How do you schedule the frequency of the time machine backups?

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