Pmset

A month or so ago, I bought a one-year subscription of Crash Plan, a pretty sweet online bakup service. The one thing that was bugging me was that the initial backup took about an week or so to finnish so I had my mac pretty much running 24/7. After the first night I realized that I needed some app or some way to prevent it from falling a sleep so the it could do the backups.

I've been a happy user of caffeine ever since and it does a fine job. Today while reading One Thing Well I found something superior, a terminal command named pmset. Basically it's a command line tool to tinker with the energy saving settings.

Type pmset noidle and your computer won't fall a sleep until you hit ctrl+c, pretty neat!