Any way to configure time machine?

Hello:
I have heard that there is a way to configure time machine so you can specify how often to back up the hard drive. Any thoughts?
I am not sure why Apple chose not to allow the user to specify the time interval. Right now, I have 150 GB on my hard drive and over 300 GB in backups.
Thanks,
P

There is a third-party utility called TimeMachineScheduler - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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10/12/13 8:25:12.755 PM com.apple.backupd[19003]: Starting manual backup
10/12/13 8:25:12.841 PM com.apple.backupd[19003]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://[email protected]/TimeMachine
10/12/13 8:25:14.645 PM com.apple.backupd[19003]: Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/TimeMachine using URL: afp://[email protected]/TimeMachine
10/12/13 8:25:14.687 PM fseventsd[48]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.fseventsd/fc007524359f8bb3 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.fseventsd
10/12/13 8:25:14.687 PM fseventsd[48]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.fseventsd/fc007524359f8bb3 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.fseventsd
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10/12/13 8:49:07.658 PM com.apple.backupd[19003]: 679.85 GB required (including padding), 143.39 GB available
10/12/13 8:49:15.324 PM com.apple.backupd[19003]: Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/TimeMachine/iMac.sparsebundle
10/12/13 8:49:15.324 PM com.apple.backupd[19003]: Compacting backup disk image to recover free space
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10/12/13 8:49:57.437 PM com.apple.backupd[19003]: Starting manual backup
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10/12/13 9:14:06.234 PM com.apple.backupd[19003]: 679.85 GB required (including padding), 143.39 GB available
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Thanks Linc.
What happened is I needed to retrieve something from Time Machine prior to starting a backup (the first backup after restoring everything). However, Time Machine wouldn't connect to the Time Capsule, so that is why I used the tmutil commands. Probably if I had instead started a backup then it would have asked me if I wanted to inherit.
Well, if there's no way to avoid a full copy then I guess I'll delete the archive and start over.
Thanks again for your help.

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Await any help.
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Richard. B Mann wrote:
Checking on the correct way to use Time Machine.
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The only item showing on list is my HD.
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