Tm works fine here's feedback

This is great.
I take it that there was no way around the issues with reformatting drives etc. That would be the first thing to fix, make it work with say, the iomega I bought right out of the box, not after a good flail with reformatting etc. What about backing up to dvd's? That went the way of the dodo as an option I guess...
Then under preferences there should be radio buttons next to:
Time Machine keeps
Hourly backups for the past 24 hours
Daily backups for the past month
Weekly backups til your drive is full
Myself for example, I'd only set it to hourly when I'm working, most of the time
it's a waste of space to backup so often.
Over a year say, I'd like to look and see that there is a monthly backup for the first 11months
and weekly in recent time.
Maybe it will work well when the drive gets full, but right now I have my doubts...I may get too much recent time and not enough ancient time. I should be able to set that.

"make it work with say, the iomega I bought right out of the box"
Frequently, HD are formatted FAT32 (a lowest common denominator) and that doesn't do with a Mac. Oh you can use it, but FAT has severe limitation (file size limits for one). TM needs a better file system if it's to do its magic - so working with most HDs out of the box is definitely out.
Backup to DVDs? I consider DVD reliability a notch better than the old tape drives I used to use.
Don't like the 1 hour schedule? If you are not using your mac, then there are precious few new files that are generated, so a backup at that point is very small. Minimal additional disk space used. [My Mac burped last week and I had to do a full restore using TM. It worked beautifully! If I had decided to reschedule backups to once every 4 hours, say, than I would very likely have lost some files in that restore. As it was, with the 1 hour backups, I lost a couple of email messages when I restored. Not bad.
Monthly backups (consolidated from weeklies)? Okay, I could go for that.

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