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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Time Machine frequency on Mac Studio
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:25:25 -0800
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On 2024-12-24 06:53, vallor wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ah!

I hadn't notice that option. It must be fairly new.

Thanks!