On 2017-07-23, at 1:09 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: > Probably not, as it's impossible to make Time Machine put the result where > you really want it — at best, it will only put it right beside where you > originally got it.
"sudo tmutil restore" can put it back whereever I want. Yea, Finder's interface only restores in-place. > > Frankly (see my post of two minutes again) it's getting increasingly > difficult simply to make Time Machine even do Time Machining properly. I seem to have missed that message -- what's wrong with TM as a TM? > >> On Jul 23, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 2017-07-23, at 12:00 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >>> The way we used to evade this problem 30 years ago was to select an >>> archival or compression utility that preserved all of the file system >>> properties we needed transferred, throw its output into a pipe, and use the >>> dearchival invocation to re-extract it into the target space. >> >> So, the best way is to make a time machine backup, and the restore that??? >> >> Sheesh :-) >> >>> >>>> On Jul 23, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> What is the best way to duplicate a directory tree on a mac? >>>> >>>> Assume I'm at the command line, as "sudo bash". >>>> >>>> Assume I want *everything*, as much as possible -- ACL's, ownerships, file >>>> forks, etc. -- as perfect of a "clone" as you can get (and no, there is no >>>> clone command -- >>>> keybounceMBP:/ michael$ man -k clone >>>> Clone(3pm) - recursively copy Perl datatypes >>>> curl_easy_duphandle(3) - Clone a libcurl session handle >>>> nano(1) - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico >>>> clone >>>> snmp_pdu_add_variable(3), snmp_varlist_add_variable(3), >>>> snmp_add_null_var(3), snmp_clone_varbind(3), snmp_set_var_objid(3), >>>> snmp_set_var_value(3), snmp_set_var_typed_value(3), >>>> snmp_set_var_typed_integer(3), print_variable(3), fprint_variable(3), >>>> snprint_variable(3), print_value(3), fprint_value(3), snprint_value(3), >>>> snmp_free_var(3), snmp_free_varbind(3) - netsnmp_varbind_api functions >>>> snmp_pdu_create(3), snmp_clone_pdu(3), snmp_fix_pdu(3), snmp_free_pdu(3) - >>>> netsnmp_pdu_api functions >>>> git-clone(1) - Clone a repository into a new directory >>>> >>>> -- none of those are "clone a file".) >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Entertaining minecraft videos >>>> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >>>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >>> >> >> --- >> Entertaining minecraft videos >> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >> > --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
