Control Time Machine Backups From iCal

One of the things that annoyed me the most about OS X Leopard was Time Machine. There isn't a way to schedule back ups, through the Time Machine app or the preference pane. So with all my tutorials, when there's something about OS X that I don't like, I go through the systems files and change them till they meet my needs. After spending a few time in some of the Time Machine related files, I found a shell script Terminal command file called:backupd-helper. I decided to click on it and Time Machine started backing up. I found the file that controls Time Machine! Now into iCal, in iCal when a set event occurs you have the option to run an apple script. So all I had to do was make an apple script that would open the backupd-helper file and instantly backups would occur based on when I set the iCal event. However I had some trouble getting the file to open through apple script. I could get Terminal to open the backupd-helper file but not the apple script. So instead of making a script to open up the file. I made an apple script to tell Terminal to open up backupd-helper. To see exactly how to do it, watch the video below:

/System/Library/CoreServices/b ackupd.bundle/Contents/Resourc es/\
backupd-helper &

~Matt