Getting a command to move to the time machine backup of working dir
So I'm trying to figure out a good alias command to move to the backup of the current dir. pushd "$(tmutil latestbackup)"/"$(pwd -P)" -bash: pushd: /Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/Keybounces MacBook Pro/2017-09-25-072130//Volumes/UserData/Users/michael/Movies/Episode projects and notes/Corona Trials: No such file or directory keybounceMBP:Corona Trials michael$ The issue? Root will be missing the name of root; all other partitions will have a "/Volumes" in the middle that needs to be removed. Does anyone have a good way to say "Get me to the backup of the current directory", for a pushd target? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Getting time machine to backup a drive image
On 2017-09-25, at 9:03 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Michael wrote: >> >> I'm not going to a sparse image (which worked fine to start, but became >> horribly slow), I'm talking about taking something that is currently an >> image, and turning it into a normal directory in the time machine (right now >> it is only backed up as a disk image, not as the contents). > > Ah, got it. > > Are you able to select the mounted volume as a backup source? > Is the mounted volume silently skipped? > Are there any error messages from backupd? I am not able to select it. It does not show up. It is silently skipped. No error messages. 10.9.5 (Got a 64 GB partition to install 10.12.6 in for testing.) > > -- > arno s hautala/-| a...@alum.wpi.edu > > pgp b2c9d448 --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Getting time machine to backup a drive image
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Michael wrote: > > I'm not going to a sparse image (which worked fine to start, but became > horribly slow), I'm talking about taking something that is currently an > image, and turning it into a normal directory in the time machine (right now > it is only backed up as a disk image, not as the contents). Ah, got it. Are you able to select the mounted volume as a backup source? Is the mounted volume silently skipped? Are there any error messages from backupd? -- arno s hautala/-| a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp b2c9d448 ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Getting time machine to backup a drive image
On 2017-09-25, at 6:28 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Michael wrote: >> So if a hard drive is backed by a physical disk, time machine will back it >> up just fine. >> If it's backed up by an hdiutil mounted image, then it seems to refuse to >> back it up. > > I haven't used TimeMachine in a while, but this previously worked just > fine. I had a sparse bundle image on an AFP share. Every hour TM would > invisibly mount the share, then mount the image, perform the backup, > and finally unmount the image and share. Wrong direction. I'm not going to a sparse image (which worked fine to start, but became horribly slow), I'm talking about taking something that is currently an image, and turning it into a normal directory in the time machine (right now it is only backed up as a disk image, not as the contents). ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Getting time machine to backup a drive image
On 2017-09-25, at 6:28 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Michael wrote: >> So if a hard drive is backed by a physical disk, time machine will back it >> up just fine. >> If it's backed up by an hdiutil mounted image, then it seems to refuse to >> back it up. > > I haven't used TimeMachine in a while, but this previously worked just > fine. I had a sparse bundle image on an AFP share. Every hour TM would > invisibly mount the share, then mount the image, perform the backup, > and finally unmount the image and share. Wrong direction. I'm not going to a sparse image (which worked fine to start, but became horribly slow), I'm talking about taking something that is currently an image, and turning it into a normal directory in the time machine (right now it is only backed up as a disk image, not as the contents). ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Getting time machine to backup a drive image
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Michael wrote: > So if a hard drive is backed by a physical disk, time machine will back it up > just fine. > If it's backed up by an hdiutil mounted image, then it seems to refuse to > back it up. I haven't used TimeMachine in a while, but this previously worked just fine. I had a sparse bundle image on an AFP share. Every hour TM would invisibly mount the share, then mount the image, perform the backup, and finally unmount the image and share. Do you have any error messages in Console.app from backupd? Or are you unable to even select the mounted image volume as the destination? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
