Monday, November 16, 2009

How to access Time Machine files from Linux

here a crude helper to restore a 'Time Machine.app' backup on a linux system (well, a non-OSX system...)

starting from How to access Time Machine files from Linux the steps are somewhat automated.
ARG1: directory from where to descend and restore files
ARG2: destination directory
ARG3: directory whith the dir_* files
eg.:
sudo restoretmbackup.py /media/osxbackup/Backups.backupdb/nikki/Latest/nikki foo/ /media/osxbackup/.HFS+\ Private\ Directory\ Data^M
(you might not need to sudo...)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can't access the link.. there's a security exception and then it asks me for a username and password.

iiegn said...

...sure enough, thanks - updated the link.