Is there way for Time Machine backups to only when I'm not using my laptop?

[tjluoma]

@majorgear

There is another app called Time Machine Editor that might also do the trick. It says it can schedule and also have backups run only when my machine is idle.

Has anyone here used either of these apps? or even a different app?

I have used TMEditor and it does seem to work at setting things to run when idle. You can also set it to run during certain hours.