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Question regarding the change

I am running Mountain Lion 10.8.2.


I have been tinkering with modifying backup interval for Time Machine. In order to do this I have been attempting to edit the com.apple.backupd-auto plist file. To change it I have read that all that is required is to do the following.


sudo
defaults write
/System/Library/Launch
Daemons
/com
.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 1800

However there is no StartInterval in the plist file. So how is the above write command supposed to work?

Contents of the
com
.apple.backupd-auto is as follows
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Label</key>

<string>com.apple.backupd-auto</string>

<key>Disabled</key>

<true/>

<key>ProgramArguments</key>

<array>

<string>/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd- helper</string>

<string>-auto</string>

</array>

<key>LaunchEvents</key>

<dict>

<key>com.apple.time</key>

<dict>

<key>Backup Interval</key>

<dict>

<key>Interval</key>

<integer>3600</integer>

<key>MaintenanceWakeBehavior</key>

<string>Once</string>

</dict>

</dict>

</dict>

<key>RunAtLoad</key>

<false/>

<key>KeepAlive</key>

<false/>

<key>EnableTransactions</key>

<true/>

</dict>

</plist>


iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Dec 9, 2012 8:42 PM

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