Recipe: Speed Up Compiles By Dialing-down TimeMachine

Ever notice how bogged down your development can get when TimeMachine wakes up every hour or so and scans all of your disks looking for things to squirrel away into its backups?  If you have a lot of disks and do a lot of compiles the conflict between the Xcode and TimeMachine can slow your system to a crawl. So, what’s a developer to do?

Landon Fuller, a very well  known MacOSX/iPhone/BSD developer, posted a great Gist (a small snippet on GitHub) that will make your life (well, at least your compiles) at lot faster/smoother:  Its a recipe for turning off automated TimMachine backups between a certain time interval.  Basically it’s a PList that you use to modify TimeMachine’s defaults through the use of SnowLeopard’s LaunchDaemon mechanism.