Path: ...!news.nobody.at!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Time Machine frequency on Mac Studio Date: 24 Dec 2024 18:02:18 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net g2gNrrx1b0YP4gIJ7E2E8g9ZJ6bWILYe20PkAfNKU8dU4U7PGI Cancel-Lock: sha1:zBwcwWxMxZBE9HFJ9Ce8/QZvzMM= sha256:qyaOaPwNRsnv8AQDf1B1ze6qjIVrZj0kkCGsQQd/jzw= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Bytes: 1814 On 2024-12-24, 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. Hourly isn't too much. 🤣 Hourly backups let you undelete files you just deleted, or roll back to a version of the file you modified. And an hourly frequency means incremental backup will be smaller and faster. So I really have to wonder what makes you claim they are "too much"... -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR