Existing users, 
TimeMachineEditor
Change your Time Machine backup schedule & more.
Version: 2.5
Daemon - no go!
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: walfrieda Saturday, October 03 2009 @ 02:00 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
I used to love this program because it did not install a background daemon to interfere with the system. There have always been other programs with daemons - something I never even looked at having the perfect solution with TimeMachineEditor. Now, for Snow Leopard, the developer changed over to the dark side. Maybe there is no other possibility - I don't care. I will not install a background daemon to take care of my backups. I'd rather live with hourly backups than using this version. That was it - good bye.
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Comments
Daemon - no go! - timesoftware
You shouldn't be alarmed at all about this daemon since this is exactly the same way the built-in mechanism works. There is no background process running all the time, the launched daemon is actually an Apple process and it is only launched at schedule time.This is perfectly sane, hacking system files was more dangerous.
Sunday, October 04 2009 @ 09:11 AM PDT
Daemon - no go! - bernie90210
Then how would simply deleting TME properly restore default settings?Sunday, October 04 2009 @ 09:33 AM PDT
Daemon - no go! - timesoftware
You just need to turn the switch (at the bottom of the window) to OFF. The daemon will be uninstalled and the application is the only component that remains.Sunday, October 04 2009 @ 12:06 PM PDT
Daemon - no go! - bernie90210
I don't understand. You had written, "the launched daemon is actually an Apple process and it is only launched at schedule time," and now you're mentioning about uninstalling a special daemon which is what the original user's objection was!Sunday, October 04 2009 @ 08:09 PM PDT
Daemon - no go! - timesoftware
Because we're mixing daemons and configuration files.The .plist files inside the LaunchDaemons directories are just configuration files which tell launchd to run processes as daemons (=> in the system context).
TimeMachineEditor installs a configuration file which tells launchd to run a system process (the same process used by Apple when Time Machine is turned ON). The only thing that needs to be installed / uninstalled is this configuration file.
Monday, October 05 2009 @ 02:24 PM PDT
Daemon - no go! - bernie90210
I agree completely. This is an unfortunate turn of events.Reply to This
Sunday, October 04 2009 @ 06:09 AM PDT