TimeMachineEditor — Edit Time Machine Backup interval

Time Machine was introduced to Mac OS X 10.5, Snow Leopard. It’s a great application that could help Mac users to back up  their files to an external hard drive or a Network Attached System (NAS). By default, the Time Machine will scan your Mac back up every hour if needed.

This is good to minimize the work to be done by end users; I mean, once you turn on your Time Machine drive, you basically don’t need to care about it any more — it will do its job well. However, if you are a person like me who doesn’t really make a lot of changes to his/her files and thus every-hour-file-scanning is totally unnecessary. Probably I only need to do back up once per day; yet Time Machine preference doesn’t really give us the option to do this little “smart scheduling”.

This is why TimeMachineEditor came in, how does it work?

TimeMachineEditor does not modify existing system files at all (unlike versions prior to 2.5). Instead it handles its own scheduling to trigger Time Machine backups when you want them to occur.
TimeMachineEditor also has its own ON / OFF switch that lets you enable / disable automatic backups.

(Source: http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/)

Basically what this software does is to give you more flexible backup schedule for TimeMachine without modifying your existing system files. So whenever you decide not go keep this application, you can just stop what it’s doing so far and trash it completely.

You could set backup interval:

Or you could set up calendar intervals:

And you can view the back up log whenever you want: