Change Time Machine settings in 10.5 with Lingon

If you felt that you weren’t getting enough ability to change settings in 10.5 with Time Machine, Lingon can help you out letting you tweak certain aspects of your backups. Time Machine defaults start backing up as soon as you attach your Time Machine drive, and for users who use a desktop computer, this isn’t an issue. But for laptop users who may only plug in their laptop at a certain time of the day, they will suffer from a slow down in productivity. Another issue you may have is the 1 hour interval backing up.

Welcome to Lingon, which lets you do exactly that and change many aspects of Time Machine with ease. Here is how from Mac OSX Hints:

1. Download and Install Lingon.
2. In the right-hand column, access the System Daemon heading and highlight com.apple.backupd-auto.
3. In the main window, skip to section three, uncheck Run it every time a volume is mounted and check At a specific date:. Set days and time as you wish.
4. Save and Restart OS X.