Changing Time Machine Backup Frequency

Time Machine just does what it does and there’s not much controlin’ it aside from what’s in the System Preference pane.  Or is there?  Earlier, I covered how to disable the disk check feature, now let’s look at how to change the frequency of when backups occur.  Backups are initiated by com.apple.backupd-auto.plist, stored in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons.  The [...]

Posted on June 30, 2009 at 12:01 am by admin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Suppressing Time Machine on Disk Mount

By default, when you are using Time Machine in Mac OS X, every time you insert a drive the system will ask you if you would like to use that drive as a Time Machine backup destination.  If you are like me and you swap drives around a lot then this can get annoying.  So [...]

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 1:00 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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TimeMachine Over Xsan and iSCSI

Now that I’ve shown over the years how to setup an Xsan and iSCSI targets on Mac OS X I am starting to get a number of questions about how to set these up in such a way that Time Machine can backup to them.  Since they’re not your typical disks in a lot of [...]

Posted on December 21, 2008 at 4:36 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Mac OS X 10.5: Using Unsupported Disks with Time Machine

I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal If you want to use an unsupported disk type for your Time Machine archives, running the following command on workstations will allow you to do so: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Posted on November 7, 2007 at 12:18 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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