Not useful to me - Stef@nK

make sure that Time Machine is switched OFF in its Preference Pane.
TMS does this automatically, but the user should leave it off

Stefan Klieme, Developer of TMS

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Tuesday, April 08 2008 @ 09:54 AM PDT

Not useful to me - sdmactech

no, you sir are wrong .....

According to Apple's page on Time Machine ....

"Timing is everything.
Every hour, every day, an incremental backup of your Mac is made automatically as long as your backup drive is attached to your Mac. Time Machine saves the hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month. Only files created and then deleted before the next hourly backup will not be included in the long term. Put another way: You’re well covered."

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html

I believe that said ... Every hour, every day, an incremental backup of your Mac is made automatically as long as your backup drive is attached to your Mac"

How does that translate into one single weekly backup only? the Hourly's eventually get compressed into weeklys, but it does make a hourly backup, every day ... even after that first week.

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Wednesday, April 09 2008 @ 07:55 AM PDT

Re: Not useful to me - shiatis

Who needs incremental backups twice a day? How about who needs them 24 times a day? Time Machine runs on my PowerBook G4 every hour and there is a noticeable drop in response and performance when it does. Unfortunately it takes about 30 minutes to run, so 30 minutes of every hour my machine is on it's being crippled by Time Machine. This product works very well for me as it drops that crippling down to a manageable once a day.

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Saturday, April 19 2008 @ 11:29 PM PDT

Not useful to me - Central Scrutinizer--2008

Well I need incremental backups scheduled for every 3 hours, so your review is useless for me.

Even worse, YOU'RE useless - no, worthless - to me. If you had any clue why, then you would be useful. Now you are not.

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Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 12:09 AM PDT

Not useful to me - Alexiskai

This post mischaracterizes the nature of TM's backups. TM does indeed make a backup every hour of every day. However, it only RETAINS backups according to the schedule you cite - every hour for the day, every day for the week, and every week going back until you run out of space. So TM, left to its own devices, will fire up every hour and make a backup - it just might delete that backup later.

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Monday, August 25 2008 @ 10:06 PM PDT

Duh! - dreamerof

Know what you are talking about before commenting. You are so wrong TM does incremental backups every hour.

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Sunday, September 07 2008 @ 11:39 AM PDT

Check your drinking water - Central Scrutinizer--2008

looks like someone spiked it with the stupid.

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Tuesday, October 07 2008 @ 10:00 AM PDT

Check your drinking water - Central Scrutinizer--2008

looks like someone spiked it with teh stupid.

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Tuesday, October 07 2008 @ 10:16 AM PDT

Time Machine's Actual Schedule - roksob

TM does back up every hour, otherwise it would be useless. It keeps hourly backups for today and 24 hourly backups for yesterday. At the end of the next 24 hours, it gets rid of 23 oldest hourly backups and keeps only one. It keeps 1 backup for each day of the previous two months. It keeps weekly backups for the months prior to that. In other words, if you have been using TM for several months with your machine active 24/7, you will have:
A number of hourly backups for today depending on the time;
24 backups for yesterday;
Roughly 60 daily backups for the last two months:
A number of weekly backups for the time before that.

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Sunday, December 21 2008 @ 01:05 AM PST

Not useful to me - bob_g

By are you confused.

By default Time Machine creates an incremental backup once every hour.

Don't confuse this with how it "KEEPS" the back-up data.
Daily backups stored for one month.
Weekly backups stored until you disk is full.

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Tuesday, December 23 2008 @ 08:18 AM PST

Some statements in this post are incorrect - tesler

The second paragraph of the post called "Not useful to me" is a mischaracterization. It says "creates" when it should say "keeps". It would be more accurate to say:

• TM backs up every hour every day, creating up to 24 so-called "hourly backups".
• TM deletes hourly backups that are more than 24 hours old, with the exception of one each day, which it keeps as a "daily backup".
• TM deletes daily backups that are more than 1 month old, with the exception of one each week, which it keeps as a "weekly backup".
• When the disk is about to fill up, TM deletes the oldest weekly backups to make more room.

After you have been running TM for a few weeks, you can see the result by opening TM (the application, not the System Preferences pane) and running the mouse over the time scale on the right. It will show you the dates of backups it has kept. It made many more backups that it has since deleted.

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Thursday, February 05 2009 @ 08:21 AM PST