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From: TaliesinSoft on 23 Apr 2010 22:38
On 2010-04-14 17:06:03 -0500, Kir�ly said:

> Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote:

[commenting on my using TimeMachineEditor to schedule Time Machine
backups to run on the hour and setting SuperDuper! to run its backups
to my Time Capsule at a quarter after the hour, settings that would
prevent SuperDuper! from initiating a backup shortly after Time Machine
initiated its backups, a sequence that causes the failure of the
SuperDuper! backups]

>> This seems still to be a workaround. The proper way to do this would be
>> to run either of both from a script that waits until the backup is done
>> and then starts the other.
>
> ...and there is just such a way. The following Terminal command will
> turn Time Machine off:
>
> defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine AutoBackup
> -bool NO
>
> And this one will turn it back on:
>
> defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine AutoBackup
> -bool YES
>
> Have SD! run the first one before it starts backing up, and the second
> one after it finishes. You can tell SD! to do this in Options ->
> Advanced.

I forwarded the above suggestion to Shirt-Pocket, the implementors of
SuperDuper! and they stated that they felt that my TimeMachineEditor
solution, the one in which I schedule both Time Machine backups and
SuperDuper! backups at different times was, in their mind, the
preferable solution.

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James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

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