Does anyone know how to change the automatic backup time on a Mac? My backup is stubbornly set for 10:20am daily and I can’t seem to change it. I’ve tried doing a manual backup hoping to reset the time but that didn’t work. I’ve also toggled auto backup on and off and tried a few other combinations.
I’m not aware of any built-in task scheduler for Mac like Windows Task scheduler where you can adjust eM Client automatic backup time. If there is someone will update this thread.
So you might need to use another eg: external backup program like @tingo advised in his post
Alternatively you could just eg: disable the automatic backup and just manually do backups via “Menu / Backup” at the time you want which is what I personally do. You can see when the backup is complete in Show Operations via clicking the drop-down on the right of Refresh top left.
Mac does indeed have a scheduler. It’s called launchd, and I’ve used it to schedule other tasks. I see now that eM Client has a launchd configuration file named com.emclient.mail.backup.plist (in ~/Library/LaunchAgents). So, I should be able to change the configuration to my liking, or perhaps disable automatic backups and create my own configuration.
Mac does indeed have a scheduler. It’s called launchd
Ok cool I’ll check that out. Googling that is basically a Cron from the old Unix and Amiga days but more flexible and robust than a basic Cron as Launchd can now handle tasks even with sleep.
Hopefully you get that to work ok for eM Client.