On Nov 15, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Ben Kernan wrote:

> I can't seem to figure out how to change Time Machine's preferences... I 
> really don't want it doing a backup of my drive every hour, once a week would 
> be fine. BTW I am backing up to an 80 gig drive... Yea, I know I should get 
> something bigger, but I haven't gotten there yet. Just took the thing out of 
> storage today...
>  

<http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=200710291721156>

I know this works, I set it to twice a day on my old, memory challenged iMac to 
keep Time Machin from grinding everything to a halt every hour when I was doing 
stuff like running Windows VM's


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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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