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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Time Machine frequency on Mac Studio
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:53:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:39:27 -0800, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote in
<vkdkuv$1n1v8$1@dont-email.me>:

> On 2024-12-23 18:29, vallor wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> So I have Time Machine backups on our Mac Studio backing up to our
>> Synology DiskStation.  But now I'm puzzled.
>> 
>> It has the option to back up hourly, daily, or weekly.  Hourly is too
>> much, and daily is too little -- I'd like to back up every 6 hours.
>> 
>> Is there a way to set that up in the gui, or do I need to set up tmutil
>> jobs in crontab?  Or...?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
> No.
> 
> Time Machine backs up every hour.
> 
> What you are looking at is how it culls it's backups.

Unless I'm mistaken, that turns out not to be the case.  If you
look under "options" in System > General > Time Machine, you'll
see four options for frequency of backup:  Manual, Hourly, Daily, Weekly.

I set it to "Manual", then used TME to set backups for every 6 hours.

-- 
-v