Is there a utility or synch tool that will compare files in a time
machine backup and restore the files from the time machine that are
not on the current laptop hard drive?
One other approach I could take is to isolate the files from the past
10 days or so, then do a full restore. After the
Not sure I totally understand what you are trying to accomplish, but why not
just restore the files to the machine and copy them to your destination of
choice using whatever means is necessary?
Dan
Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a utility or synch tool that will compare files
The main thing is that I don't want to restore old files over the top
of new files and lose newer info.
Hard drive died, the dealer put in a new drive, installed the OS and
whatever he could recover. I was about 10 days before I could get to
my backed up files. I was looking for a utility
Gotcha.
You will have to pay for it, but it's money well spent:
Super File Synchronizer.
I use it to manage my backups between my machines and my Xserve RAID volumes.
Highly configurable and can be scheduled. I highly recommend it.
Dan
Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
The main thing
Wouldn't it make the most sense to only copy your user directory files? I
would be cautious against trying to copy OS files that way. You can
probably rsync your user directory on Time Machine back to your new hard
drive. Or better still, copy your user directory to a backup location,
then use
Yes, I am only talking about stuff in the documents folder. Music
and photos I will just move manually. nothing new there. Is rsync a
built in utility? I did a search but did not find it.
Wouldn't it make the most sense to only copy your user directory files? I
would be cautious against
You may need to download rsync (free). It is a command line program. What
Dan suggested sounds like a GUI based version of rsync.
You can also rename your existing Documents folder to something like
Documents.tmp and then restore your entire Documents folder from Time
Machine to your local
Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com writes:
Yes, I am only talking about stuff in the documents folder. Music and
photos I will just move manually. nothing new there. Is rsync a
built in utility? I did a search but did not find it.
rsync is a command-line utility. You would run it from the
Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu writes:
Maybe as simple as:
rsync -u /time/machine/source /your/target/dir
...but wise to experiment with a copy first.
Oops actually I think that would be:
rsync -u /time/machine/source/ /your/target/dir
rsync is sensitive to whether the path ends
yeah, I think i was overthinking it. Your suggestion it simple and
works. Thanks.
I am off to start down that road.
Wouldn't it make the most sense to only copy your user directory files? I
would be cautious against trying to copy OS files that way. You can
probably rsync your user
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:47:19 -0500 Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu
wrote:
Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com writes:
Yes, I am only talking about stuff in the documents folder. Music and
photos I will just move manually. nothing new there. Is rsync a
built in utility? I did a search
Dieselhead wrote:
Is there a utility or synch tool that will compare files in a
time machine backup and restore the files from the time
machine that are not on the current laptop hard drive?
You simply want all the files that exist in the backup but don't
exist on the system?
Plain old
On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:29 PM, Fmiser wrote:
Dieselhead wrote:
Is there a utility or synch tool that will compare files in a
time machine backup and restore the files from the time
machine that are not on the current laptop hard drive?
Not that I am aware of.
I could have used a similar
I got er done.
moved all docs on the computer to a file called documents 1.
restored docs, then copied the docs 1 contents to documents. Seems
like I have everything. I will keep checking.
I even got all my email back except 12 21 11 to 2/25. I will be
backing up more often.
On Mar
Dieselhead wrote:
Is there a utility or synch tool that will compare files in
a time machine backup and restore the files from the time
machine that are not on the current laptop hard drive?
Dan Penoff wrote:
Not that I am aware of.
I could have used a similar thing myself while
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