Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: TaliesinSoft Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Disabling Time Machine for Part of the Day Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:19:12 -0600 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <150120152135590462%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ykK67dufrfuZzjdXlsaDhwiyJNNVsjvBbzv7tkNNowcFML2Sfp Cancel-Lock: sha1:5UDl51qAjbqeOiEtCS0zc1ofA30= User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.misc:4164 On 2015-01-16 02:35:59 +0000, nospam said: > In article , TaliesinSoft > wrote: > >> Is there a way to disable Time Machine for certain hours. I would like >> to not have Time Machine run between midnight and 5:00 AM each evening. > > why bother?you'll likely be sleeping then, so the number of changed > files will be small and the update will be quick and you won't notice > it anyway (not that you would if you were awake). time machine will > prune the archive every day anyway. The reason was that there was a suggestion that there was an unwanted interference occuring between Time Machine and SuperDuper!, the backup program which runs a couple backups in the middle of the night. > and why the hell did you crosspost to 12 newsgroups, most of which were > completely irrelevant? The crossposting was an unintentional mistake on my part. An unfortunate property of Unison, the posting program I use, is that it fails to alert you when you are about to crosspost. Believe me, I cursed to myself the moment I realized that the crossposting was occurring and it was too late to do anything abnout it. -- James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas