Please help me, MR! (Time Machine intervals)

[.fred]

Ok, this is the last straw now, please help me.

I tried to change the TM interval inside LaunchDaemons, but failed. Now, my TM has stopped backing up.

Called Apple, and poor service tells me i cannot touch files in LaunchDaemons, so its NOT their responsiilty.

So here i come to MR, the place for best Mac help. I'mm appealing to all to help me solve this.

Unlike all files, this backupd-auto.plist file under Get Info tells me I have 'custom access'. The rest of the files, i can only read. Is there a terminal command to change this to make TM work again?

Or can someone upload the plist file with the original permissions so i can download it and replace it?

Please help me, thanks.

 

[VoidBoi]

Just restore using Time Machine. 🙂 Thats what I did.

 

[.fred]

Hey VoidBoit, thanks a lot!

Should i restart my computer?

 

[VoidBoi]

I didn't.

 

[.fred]

Ok, did you encounter the same problem as me?

I'm waiting to see if it works

 

[VoidBoi]

I changed mine to always backup at 6am. It worked fine.

 

[iPhil]

I changed mine to always backup at 6am. It worked fine.

How did you set-up for that back-up time?

 

[.fred]

Could you pm me your MSN address please?

Wanna know how you did it

 

[VoidBoi]

Read up on creating launchdaemons. 🙂 One of the best technologies Apple introduced with Tiger.

 

[VoidBoi]

To restore your Time Machine settings:

1. Restore /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto.plist from your Time Machine backup.

2. sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto.plist

3. sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto.plist

Instead of 2 and 3 you can just reboot.