On May 2, 2012, at 11:57 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: >> >> If you disable all that, you should be happy. > > If you can live with a different backup software, where you decide when to > actually perform the backup (preferrably when you're not working on the > machine, and when you do _not_ require all the performance it's got for your > task) then you will be happier having Time Machine disabled: on a *slow* > machine. > > Time Machine is nice: you can forget about backups, because it will do them > for you all the time. This is very fortunate on a fast machine, but it will > but the brakes on on a slow machine.
You can change the timing of when Time Machine runs by editing a .plist: <http://www.trickyways.com/2010/04/how-to-change-time-machine-backup-interval-on-mac-os-x/> Back when I had a ram-starved iMac, Time Machine would cause a big hit, so I set it to a 24 hour interval, and logged in remotely very late one night and fired it off. After that it ran every 24 hours at that time, so it did my backups when I wasn't there. Not much help if you need every cycle you can get at 3 AM, too, but if you're pounding it *that* hard, what the heck are you using such an underpowered machine for? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
