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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)
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.
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.
TM backs up when it detects new content, about once an hour. You can unplug it, it then will create local “snapshots” which will take up space on your hard drive until they are transferred to the TM disk.
Sadly there isn't any user friendly way to manage the frequency (default is hourly).
i'd suggest installing a 3rd party app: much safer and precise than messing with plist config file settings. I use TimeMachineEditor by tclementdev.
Thank you. I will just unplug it and then plug it back in when I'm ready to b/u. :)
Appreciate the suggestion!
Remember that TM will automatically create local snapshots on your internal drive until you plug it back in, so make sure to do that often enough so the snapshots do not take over your hard drive.
How do you schedule the frequency of the time machine backups?
