This is useful. It would be even more useful if there was a way to force a Backup Now when the TM pref panel has the OFF-ON slider in the OFF position. There are many people who want to avoid hourly backups done by default and adopt a single backup per day. Thus a cron script can be launched once per day to force the daily backup.

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Regards... Barry Sharp

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Actually to do what I suggested - which is to invoke a backup with the TM panel's OFF-ON switch in the OFF position one simply executes

/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper

Thus it's possible to configure TM backups OFF and once per day execute the above command via cron or some other similar facility.

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Regards... Barry Sharp

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BTW - Using CronniX at

http://h775982.serverkompetenz.net:9080/abstracture_public/projects-en/cronnix/

makes this real easy.

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Regards... Barry Sharp

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