Autosave in the background

Is there any way to just do the autosaves in the background? Every time it autosaves, everything is greyed out and I'm usually right in the middle of doing something. It's particularly annoying when I move/scale/rotate and then it autosaves and I pretty much have to just undo and start the transformation over again. Of course I can just set the autosave to longer time increments, but I would prefer to have the more frequent autosaves, just without the major interruptions.