#Timemachineeditor not working install#
#Timemachineeditor not working tv#

I would be very happy with 3 hourly backups!!! I did try once with Snow Leopard over a year ago with the Plist option, but never got it to work. Have you tried the option with the Plist file? (But once again, even if it works you will only get local snapshots at the new interval you set). Time Machine does, and so it will not backup automatically if I am not connect to mains power. But Time Machine must be turned on.Īnother reason that I have stopped using TimeMachine Editor is that it does not have an option to respect battery power. If you're not connected to a network or your back up disk, then it will just run a snapshot locally. It actually creates local snapshots (as disk space allows) while doing the hourly backup. Time Machine needs to be turned on in order to create the local timeshots, and it does this as one job.

There is no way that I know of using Time Machine editor (or any other external tool) with local snapshots. Since installing TimeMachineEditor, backups seem to no longer be made (on the local drive) unless the external drive is plugged in.Īnyone found a way to change the Time Machine backup interval in Lion that does not prevent local backups from being made when the Time Machine drive is not available? Before installing TimeMachineEditor, Time Machine indeed did this every hour so that at any point I could enter Time Machine and browse the backup history, even when my external drive housing the backups wasn't plugged in - Time Machine would show me only what was backed up locally on my system. However, Lion's Time Machine is further capable of backing up the system on the local drive (given there is enough space on it) when the Time Machine drive (in my case an external WD drive) is not available/plugged in it then transfers these local backups to the external drive the next time that drive becomes available. I have TimeMachineEditor set to run Time Machine once every 24 hours and that indeed is what it does. TimeMachineEditor is working really well in that it is preventing Time Machine from running every hour. TimeMachineEditor seems to be working really well on my MacBook running 10.7.2 so far (2 days).ĮDIT (Update on day 8): Seems like I spoke too soon. A command line application, tmectl, allows control of all aspects programmatically as well.īecause of the way the application is built, it does not require special privileges, and is also not running into System Integrity Protection problems with Catalina.Thanks keeper and tj2001. It understands applications that prevent display and machine sleep, exclusion times for the night and custom schedules. It can control all aspects of Time Machine: remote backups to an external disk as well as local snapshots.

It instead installs its own scheduler as a background process, which will then kick off the regular Time Machine backup process, but on the schedule you want. Time Machine Editor works with automatic Time Machine backups disabled, which will turn off the local scheduler. It has a background daemon that triggers the backups, a GUI application and a command line utility. Time Machine Editor can change the Time Machine Backup interval.

#Timemachineeditor not working install#

To change the backup interval, install Time Machine Editor It does not really do much with the local disk, and it does not need to wake up every hour to make a Time Machine backup over the network.

#Timemachineeditor not working tv#

I have an embedded Mac mini, it drives the local TV screen by doing OpenVPN to Germany, Netflix, Amazon and the local Subsonic