Re: renaming MacPorts' install directory - how to handle the TM backup(s)?

2014-09-08 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
You made sure it counted unique inode filesize and not recount them each time? On September 7, 2014 2:10:12 PM EDT, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday September 07 2014 13:16:50 Brandon Allbery wrote: Yes, I was saying any operation other than actually writing the file

Re: renaming MacPorts' install directory - how to handle the TM backup(s)?

2014-09-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 4:00 AM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: I found instructions for deleting a folder from the TM backup, e.g. http://superuser.com/questions/577995/os-x-delete-single-folder-of-time-machine-backup-via-terminal Can I use the same approach for renaming, i.e. use the

Re: renaming MacPorts' install directory - how to handle the TM backup(s)?

2014-09-07 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Sunday September 07 2014 10:24:09 Brandon Allbery wrote: from overwriting a file (you'd want to break the hardlink first if you only want it to affect that backup, and for that-backup-and-forward you'd need to re-hardlink the later backups with the original inode number). A mv (rename)

Re: renaming MacPorts' install directory - how to handle the TM backup(s)?

2014-09-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 1:14 PM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday September 07 2014 10:24:09 Brandon Allbery wrote: from overwriting a file (you'd want to break the hardlink first if you only want it to affect that backup, and for that-backup-and-forward you'd need to

Re: renaming MacPorts' install directory - how to handle the TM backup(s)?

2014-09-07 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Sunday September 07 2014 13:16:50 Brandon Allbery wrote: Yes, I was saying any operation other than actually writing the file should be safe, and then saying what would be needed in the actually-writing-the-file case to make it safe. /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/portia