On Jul 23, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Michael wrote:
What is the best way to duplicate a directory tree on a mac?
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>> Considering that my first attempt failed to account for all 5 timestamps
>> (remember, only 3 are seen by unix programs, but finder wants to show
Yeah, I also endorse CCC as my actual first choice for this task, I was just
thinking about how to do it with native MacOS stuff.
> On Jul 23, 2017, at 4:39 PM, Michael wrote:
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> On 2017-07-23, at 2:20 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
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>> It’s not a
On 2017-07-23, at 2:20 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
> It’s not a command line thing…but CarbonCopyCloner will do that for you
> pretty nicely. I think it uses sudo ditto underneath it all…or maybe rsync,
> not really sure.
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> It typically gets pretty high marks on
It’s not a command line thing…but CarbonCopyCloner will do that for you pretty
nicely. I think it uses sudo ditto underneath it all…or maybe rsync, not really
sure.
It typically gets pretty high marks on actually cloning everything.
> On Jul 23, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Michael
On 2017-07-23, at 1:09 PM, Macs R We 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
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.
Frankly (see my post of two minutes again) it's getting increasingly difficult
simply to make Time Machine even do Time
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.
> On Jul 23, 2017,
On 2017-07-23, at 12:00 PM, Macs R We 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
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 --
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