Scheduling backups

You can schedule backup sessions for a particular time of day, day of the week, or after startup.

Note: Computer must be awake for sheduled 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 startup." Check "weekly and select a day to make a once-a-week backup session

Backup on startup

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 scheduler while Mac is in sleep mode go to System Preferences > Energy Saver > Options > Schedule and set Mac to wake up a few minutes before you have scheduled a time. So If the scheduled backup is 8:10AM then set Mac to wake from sleep at 8 AM. It's easy and it works!

Make backuplist a login item and selecting 'Hidden.'

You must select this to have scheduled backups work. Backuplist must launch after startups so it can check the time behind the scenes. Selecting Hidden will make backuplist hidden after startup. When a backup session occurs automatically, backuplist will return to hidden state after the session.

Multiple backup sets

You can create multiple sets of backup lists with their own scheduling options and settings. See Sets...

See also

Choose a destination folder