Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

2017-07-24 Thread Michael
On Jul 23, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Michael wrote: What is the best way to duplicate a directory tree on a mac? >> >> 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

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

2017-07-23 Thread Macs R We
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: > > > On 2017-07-23, at 2:20 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > >> It’s not a

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

2017-07-23 Thread Michael
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. > > It typically gets pretty high marks on

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

2017-07-23 Thread Neil Laubenthal
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

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

2017-07-23 Thread 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

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

2017-07-23 Thread Macs R We
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

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

2017-07-23 Thread Macs R We
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,

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

2017-07-23 Thread Michael
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

Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

2017-07-23 Thread Michael
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:/