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Hide the Time Capsule Time Machine backup file
Authored by: derek_beatty on Oct 09, '09 10:25:53AM

Can you still restore from the time capsule to your Mac after starting it from the installation disk?



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Hide the Time Capsule Time Machine backup file
Authored by: everkleer80 on Oct 09, '09 03:44:53PM

I can confirm that you can do a restore when booting from the restore disc if you hide the backup using SetFile -a V <backup_name> (from the Developer tools - see my post above.) I assume it would also work with the chflags command, but I can't confirm that since that's not what I used.

(I kind of wish the restore didn't work when the file was hidden though because I just did a full restore the other night to fix something I did that screwed up PHP on my machine, but I forgot about a few folders I had excluded from my backups! If I'd had to think some more about how to restore from the backup, I might have remembered to backup my excluded folders!)



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