Customize Time Machine Intervals

Why? You don't want Time Machine to backup your data too frequently that it fills up your backup disk quickly. Unless you are someone who works in a production area or your files moved and altered very frequently in one day.

What happen when your backup disk is full? This is what happened to my mom. It automatically removes the oldest files until the latest backup made it's way safely to the backup disk. You don't want that. The worst thing is, it doesn't ask for your permission. Or make it this way. It doesn't ask a question that can be understand by a non geek user.

When you restore a large files to the current time, Time Machines will do hourly backup in the next hour. This will fill up your backup disk fast. What happen if the large file that you just restore isn't the file that you want? Some people will go back in time and restore another one. And they forget to remove the earlier files.

Time Machine users should know how this thing works before they start using it. Unless they have a super huge disk or unlimited storage, they should aware of their backup disk usage. So if needed, you can customize your backup interval using TimeMachineEditor.