Re: Question Concerning Scheduling Time Machine

2016-11-06 Thread Bill Gallik
Thanks to each of you for your suggestions. After I sent out the e-mail I decided that I would keep automatic backups turned off and rely on the Extras Menu/Time Machine to initiate backups at my discretion. Again, thanks much! Bill & Leader Dog Holland - "A person reveals

Re: Question Concerning Scheduling Time Machine

2016-11-05 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! There is an payed app called schedule bacup which i think can do what you want. I don’t know if its voiceover friendly but it might worth trying. /A > On 4 Nov 2016, at 14:57, E.T. wrote: > > Uncheck the automatic backup option. Check it when you want to run a >

Re: Question Concerning Scheduling Time Machine

2016-11-04 Thread E.T.
Uncheck the automatic backup option. Check it when you want to run a backup. Not ideal. I let mine stay checked. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/4/2016 6:08 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: automatic backup -- The following information is

Re: Question Concerning Scheduling Time Machine

2016-11-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The GUI for Time Machine is not that granular. It is automatically set to backup every hour unless it can't find the backup drive. In those cases, it will just try in another hour, and so on, until the drive is available. There are methods in Terminal to change the backup schedule, but

Question Concerning Scheduling Time Machine

2016-11-04 Thread Bill Gallik
Good Friday Morning All; As suggested by the subject line, I have a question concerning scheduling automatic Time Machine processes Specifically, while parusing the Time Machine Preferences I located a check box for turning on automatic backups, but I wasn’t able to figure how to select a