{"id":298,"date":"2008-09-06T23:20:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-09-06T23:20:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T07:20:19","slug":"i-need-more-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/298","title":{"rendered":"I need more Time (Machine)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a continuation of an earlier post<\/a> I did on Time Machine. While investigating all the many Time Machine features and issues, I discovered a nice add-on tool called tms<\/a>. It currently is in beta and only exists as a command-line tool. It interacts with the Time Machine database on the Time Machine destination (physical disk or network) and provides some very useful information:<\/p>\n

snapshots<\/strong> – List the snapshots present on the destination<\/p>\n

$ tms snapshots\r\n\/Volumes\/Backup1\/Backups.backupdb\/media\/2008-09-06-193341: num=5760 state=4 type=2 ver=1 start=2008-09-06-19:22:21.618534 complete=2008-09-06-19:33:41.893965\r\n\/Volumes\/Backup1\/Backups.backupdb\/media\/2008-09-06-153237: num=5759 state=4 type=2 ver=1 start=2008-09-06-15:16:21.145156 complete=2008-09-06-15:32:37.095843\r\n\/Volumes\/Backup1\/Backups.backupdb\/media\/2008-09-06-113449: num=5758 state=4 type=2 ver=1 start=2008-09-06-11:17:09.578714 complete=2008-09-06-11:34:49.347916\r\n{snip}<\/pre>\n
snaplog<\/strong> – List all the log detail for the latest (or specified) backup. I won’t paste it here as it is very verbose and quite informative.<\/p>\n
log<\/strong> – List the revisions of a particular file<\/p>\n
$ tms log wp_ozh_adminmenu.php \r\n\/Volumes\/Backup1\/Backups.backupdb\/media\/2008-02-28-002700\/path\/to\/wp_ozh_adminmenu.php: num=2658 oldest=2008-02-24-22:18:09 newest=2008-04-18-22:56:42\r\n\/Volumes\/Backup1\/Backups.backupdb\/media\/2008-05-27-004103\/path\/to\/wp_ozh_adminmenu.php: num=4630 oldest=2008-05-26-00:23:11 newest=Current<\/pre>\n
delta<\/strong> – List the differences between two backups<\/p>\n
$ tms delta 5760 5759\r\ndelta: 5760 vs 5759\r\n\/Volumes\/MediaHD\/.DS_Store: !=\r\n\/Volumes\/MediaHD\/private\/var\/amavis\/tmp\/amavis-20080906T154248-92402: ->\r\n\/Volumes\/MediaHD\/private\/var\/amavis\/tmp\/amavis-20080906T130623-87446: <-\r\n\/Volumes\/MediaHD\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.iPod.plist: !=\r\n\/Volumes\/MediaHD\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist: !=\r\n{snip again}<\/pre>\n
For the notation at the end of the line, != means the file is in both backups but are different (e.g., it changed), <- means the file is in the later backup but not in the earlier, and -> means the file is in the earlier but not later.<\/p>\n
diff<\/strong> – Display the differences between two backups of a file using the diff command. For some reason, this doesn’t work for me.<\/p>\n
I’ve used tms to help isolate what is being backed up and since I am running Leopard Server, there are many changing files that I have excluded which has reduced the amount of data being backed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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