I have a MacPro which is a time machine server for the household laptops
So, I have a folder named "Laptops TM" on a large drive with a lot of space and
inside that folder are two sparse bundles, one for each laptop.
Now, I want to take the user account that is on my wife's laptop and backed-up
fully to that sparse bundle and sync it to her user account on the MacPro.
Preferably, automatically after Time Machine runs.
I can manually mount the sparsebundle and manually find the most recent backup
folder and manually
# rsync -aP /Volumes/Time\ Machine\
Backups/backups.backupdb/wifeMBP/Latest/Macintosh\ HD/Users/wife /Users/
But I will need to write a mount/dismount script to mount the image and do the
backup sometime after 'Latest" gets last modified, and that seems like a waste
of time since someone else has almost certainly done this already.
I've been doing this manually with rsync by hooking the laptop up via FW800,
but it dawned on me I already had all the data I needed. Doh.
Also, when I do this manual sync, I get a lot of files that fail:
wife/EDSE 687 Program plan.pages
231639 100% 94.83MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=1568/1586)
rsync: read errors mapping "/Volumes/Time Machine
Backups/Backups.backupdb/wifeMBP/Latest/Macintosh HD/Users/wife/EDSE 687
Program plan.pages": Input/output error (5)
wife/EDSE 687 Program plan.pdf
117954 100% 4.02MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#2, to-check=1567/1586)
rsync: read errors mapping "/Volumes/Time Machine
Backups/Backups.backupdb/wifeMBP/Latest/Macintosh HD/Users/wife/EDSE 687
Program plan.pdf": Input/output error (5)
wife/EDSE 687-program comparison.pages
200917 100% 2.04MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#3, to-check=1565/1586)
rsync: read errors mapping "/Volumes/Time Machine
Backups/Backups.backupdb/wifeMBP/Latest/Macintosh HD/Users/wife/EDSE
687-program comparison.pages": Input/output error (5)
wife/N-S-LTI-GT Basic Princeples-3.pages
168588 100% 1.64MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#4, to-check=1561/1586)
rsync: read errors mapping "/Volumes/Time Machine
Backups/Backups.backupdb/wifeMBP/Latest/Macintosh HD/Users/wife/N-S-LTI-GT
Basic Princeples-3.pages": Input/output error (5)
cannot delete non-empty directory: wife/Pictures
could not make way for new regular file: wife/Pictures
wife/.dropbox/dropbox.db
27786240 100% 24.31MB/s 0:00:01 (xfer#5, to-check=1540/1586)
rsync: read errors mapping "/Volumes/Time Machine
Backups/Backups.backupdb/wifeMBP/Latest/Macintosh
HD/Users/wife/.dropbox/dropbox.db": Input/output error (5)
rsync: read errors mapping "/Volumes/Time Machine
Backups/Backups.backupdb/wifeMBP/Latest/Macintosh
HD/Users/wife/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.airport.agent.AA508C2C-AC2D-5508-A4EE-5C8981F701BE.plist":
Input/output error (5)
WARNING: wife/Library/Preferences/VLC/CACHEDIR.TAG failed verification --
update discarded (will try again).
ERROR: wife/Library/Preferences/Reference Database.plist failed verification --
update discarded.
ERROR: wife/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist failed verification --
update discarded.
There are a lot of these. over 2750 lines worth, though most files are two or
three lines.
I haven't run the rsync over FW800 recently, but I don't remember getting those
errors.
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