OS X's Time Machine is great. We love it, but its scheduling and monitoring capabilities are tacky and we hate them. tm-monitor allows you to schedule a Time Machine backup once every 24 hours at your desired time. In addition, it will monitor your backups, and email you if the machine has not backed up in a interval set by you.
It is important to note the this script requires OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
It is pretty easy to use. See tm-monitor --help for more information, but you can setup your user defined settings with the command:
tm-monitor --setup
If you want to test your configuration, you can run the command:
tm-monitor --test
Once you are satisfied and you want to enable your scheduling, run the following command to enable:
tm-monitor --install
To install or update the script, you can run the automated installer with the following command:
bash <(curl -Ls http://git.io/qb8uxA)
This project is released under an MIT license, which pretty-much means you can do whatever you want with it. See attached LICENSE file for more information.