A script or a way to sched nightly mounting of external HD?

[Learjet035]

I have an external HD that is setup using time machine.

I notice a delay while the HD spools up from sleep on random occasions throughout the day that I'd like to avoid.

I don't really need hourly backups, Id just rather have the external drive kick on at night and do a back up.

Is there a way to do this?

A script maybe that will mount the drive at midnight or something like that?

Thank you!

 

[patrick0brien]

Schedule the following in iCal should do it. Put the right disk name in here though...

tell application "Finder"
delay 2
if not (exists the disk "REPLACEMEWITHDISKNAME") then
do shell script "diskutil mount `disktool -l | grep 'REPLACEMEWITHDISKNAME' |
sed 's/.*\\(disk[0-9s]*\\).*/\\1/'`"
end if
end tell

 

[Learjet035]

Wow awesome!
Thank you I'll try it when I get home and let ya know.

Ps. Where exactly do I put that in iCal?

Thanks

 

[Pomeroy]

Just download TimeMachineEditor it's free and easy to setup and works great.