Is Time Machine Automatically Back Up for You?

[LarryJoe33]

Since installing the latest beta, I have had to kick it off and it does not seem to be running by itself (every hour like it used to)?
[doublepost=1503586286][/doublepost]EDIT: Murphy's Law - just kicked off by itself.

 

[scgf]

I read somewhere that Apple changed the TM auto backup so that it will use an intelligent schedule - only once per hour if this is necessary. Personally I use TimeMachineEditor and set that to initiate TM backups once every four hours.

 

[matreya]

Time Machine is working fine here, using the latest Public Beta (6). Every hour, one of my three Time Machine backup drives is updated in succession.

 

[Starfighter]

Works great for me too, even with an external drive which isn't plugged in more than briefly once every other day. Time Machine makes a backup automatically everytime the system detects the drive. Sweet.

 

[scgf]

TimeMachineEditor seems to be initiating snapshots in between backups - so even though I set the interval to 4 hours, the snapshots are more regular and only a few MBs big. I have no idea how they work, but on entering TimeMachine I am given the option to restore files from the snapshots. The main TimeMachine icon in the toolbar does not mention the snapshots at all, although they are visible when I actually enter TimeMachine. Hope that makes sense!

 

[LarryJoe33]

Thanks a lot for all the insight. I use TM to backup to Time Capsule and also to an external drive when I plug it in. I'll have to checkout TimeMachineEditor.

 

[anp27]

Time Machine working fine here as well.

 

[LarryJoe33]

Yeah it’s working pretty good now. Not sure why it skipped 6 hours. Checked out time machine editor. Looks pretty cool. Not sure I need any scheduling power, I just want to make sure TM runs automatically