Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Time Machine frequency on Mac Studio Date: 20 Jan 2025 04:17:00 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oJSEs2z9z/9RYy6qePE3gQkC3qrvmvHlx+bOOPwqw5uVoC93sx Cancel-Lock: sha1:pHoMeWSXrsMY+QM+V5W17iG09lE= sha256:XRYDfDQ+T6+wE9UXow1MsIKGnDjvCu1ydEjBg8MxR7c= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.161 (Hmm2; c45f6052; Linux-6.12.10) Bytes: 2042 On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:58:11 +0100, Jörg Lorenz wrote in : > On 24.12.24 03:29, vallor wrote: >> 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. > > Keep the HD plugged and it does not matter. The amount of data remains > the same. Hourly is a very reasonable period. I agree in principle, but I get about the same changes every six hours as every hour, since the Mac isn't used very often. There's overhead in determining the changes to back up. I'd just rather not run backups so often. TME is a good solution for that. The backups were going to a Synology Diskstation. Finally decided to speed that up a bit, so I got a nice 4TB NVMe/USB 3.2 drive, a SanDisk Extreme Pro. Plugged that into my Linux workstation and set up Samba for Time Machine. Now I use that for Time Machine backups from the Mac, as well as Timeshift backups from Linux Mint. -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti OS: Linux 6.12.10 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G "If all goes well, you've overlooked something!"