Time Machine program to run when you want it to???
Hey guys, I'm wondering what program i can download to chose when to run time machine. It runs ever hour and eats up a lot of ram i hear so i heard there are programs to chose when you want to run it. I just thought i would come here and ask before i go running and download something i shouldn't. Im also running it from an external HD.
I have a 27" iMac late 2013 and am running 10.10.1
3.5 Ghz Intel Core i7
8gb ram 1600
gconley wrote:
Hey guys, I'm wondering what program i can download to chose when to run time machine. It runs ever hour and eats up a lot of ram i hear so i heard there are programs to chose when you want to run it. I just thought i would come here and ask before i go running and download something i shouldn't. Im also running it from an external HD.
I have a 27" iMac late 2013 and am running 10.10.1
3.5 Ghz Intel Core i7
8gb ram 1600
You have heard incorrectly, TM does not use a lot of RAM and takes up a very small amount of time doing the hourly backups unless you have added extremely large files or made a dramatic change to your system. If you choose to not use Time Machine the most popular alternative is to create a bootable clone using either SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner. On both cloning apps you can schedule backups however please remember they are completely different than Time Machine in that they do not create a "history" of a file. Many experienced users on these forums will use both Time Machine and a bootable clone application on separate EHDs. The reason is simple, when it comes to backup, redundancy is very wise because backups can fail too! You want them on separate EHDs because EHDs fail and you want a backup to your backup just in case.
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