My server’s boot drive doesn’t have a lot of important data on it, and it certainly doesn’t need to backing itself up hourly. There’s also an override to block out time when backups should never be done. It’s a very simple tool, with three modes of operation: back up when inactive, back up on a regular timed interval, or back up at various times you define. The solution I use to solve this problem is the free TimeMachineEditor by tclementdev (donation requested), which turns off Time Machine’s automatic scheduling and instead provides its own scheduling system that kicks off a normal Time Machine backup when appropriate. The result: Lots of clicking from the RAID, which is really distracting. By default, Time Machine tries to back up every hour, which leads to two backups happening in my office every hour. My server backs itself up to the RAID via Time Machine (in addition to a network backup), and my iMac Pro also backs up to the RAID via Time Machine. My RAID isn’t particularly loud, but there are still five drives in there and they do make an audible noise when they’re working. But those drives are the only classic spinning-disc hard drives left in my house at this point, and I’ve gotten accustomed to the silence of flash storage. I love the RAID array I have attached to my Mac mini server, with 16TB of data spread redundantly across five physical drives. I use Amazon S3 It’s for “developers" and is, well let’s just say, you have to be a "nerd/geek” to use it.Reduce backup frequency with TimeMachineEditor Includes info about Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner, Crashplan and hardware.
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