How can I avoid Time Machine starts to back up files right after the Mac is restarted?

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  •  22-10-2019
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Question

Sometimes I have to restart my Mac Mini because an application blocks it.
When I restart it, Time Machine starts to back up files right after 10 seconds I restarted the Mac, and it makes it slowly (I have 4 applications/tools that are opened at login).

Is there a way to avoid Time Machine starts to back up files, if not after X minutes I restarted the Mac (X could be a value between 10-30 minutes)?

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Solution

I've found two TimeMachine schedulers softwares: TimeMachineEditor and TimeMachineScheduler.

Both are useful to set the backup interval of Time Machine but none of them enable user to define a time limit (after mac startup) before which Time Machine can't be launched.

However, TimeMachineScheduler has an interesting option to skip backup during a user defined time slot. That may be a decent workaround if you're able to define the time slot -during which you may be "doing something urgent"- that requires Time Machine to be off.

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