Scheduling backups
You can schedule backup sessions for a particular time of day, day of the week, or after startup.
Note: Your Computer must be awake for scheduled backups to happen. You can alternately schedule backups after startup or set your computer to wake up before the backup happens. You can do this in the Energy Saver Panel in System Preferences. See "Backup on startup" ( below ).
Schedule backups
Check this box to tell backuplist+ to look for scheduling times.
Daily, Weekly
Check to schedule a backup every day, or on a specific day of the week, You can then select the time of day or "After first startup or sleep". Check "Weekly" and select a day to make a once-a-week backup session
Hourly
Check to schedule a backup every hour or indicate a number in the box for how many hours between backups.
After first startup or sleep
Check to schedule a backup once per day after startup or sleep or midnight, whichever comes first. This will insure that backuplist+ works - if your Mac is in sleep mode it won't wake up for a scheduled specific time. To use thescheduler while the Mac is in sleep mode go to System Preferences > Energy Saver, press the Schedule… button, and set the Mac to wake up a few minutes before you have scheduled a time. For example, If the scheduled backup is 8:10AM then set the Mac to wake from sleep at 8 AM. It's easy and it works!
Scheduled backups when no disk is present
Note: If you select "After first startup or sleep" or "Hourly", backuplist+ will check for the presence of a backup disk and if it is not present continue to check until it is mounted. This way, the backup will continue once the disk is mounted and then the next backup will occur at the designated time.
If a disk is not present for a scheduled backup time (via the time clock) you will see a dialog saying the disk is not present and you can then either mount the disk and try again or cancel the process.