Ubuntu / Apple :: Extracting Specific File From Mac Time Machine Drive?
Mar 5, 2011
I am trying to extract just a few files/folders from a Time Machine backup, but can't seem to find them. The drive is automatically mounted in Ubuntu, and am able to access after enabling view hidden files, the HFS+ Private Data Directory. But that is a jumbled array of thousands of numbered folders, with each taking a fair amount of time to open on this aging Dell running 10.10.
I've tried running the standard Places - Search for Documents, with 'Show hidden and backup files' enabled, but that won't pull up any of the search times I'm going for (and seemingly won't find anything at all on the drive). So, is there any way to decipher the directory tree so as to be able to access this data from Ubuntu? Or perhaps a file embedded somewhere in there that lists out the original structure, so that I can use it as an index to see what number correlates to what originally named folder?
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Apr 19, 2011
I cannot install Mac OS X on my MacBook. When I boot from the DVD the only option I get is to install the OS from Time Machine. I cannot do a clean install from the DVD. Why is that? And how can I change it? How do I get the computer to install Mac OS X from the DVD, and not Time Machine?
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May 1, 2011
I'm trying to follow various ways to setup a Time Machine drive on my Ubuntu 'natty' server. I am at the stage now though where I can't seem to find the external USB HDD anywhere. I have it partitioned into two and cannot find anything to do with it. When I check ot doesn't show up in the memory either. Is there a way to mount it or find it?
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Jun 16, 2010
Just wanted to share a script that I wrote to migrate data off of a Time Machine backup. As anyone who's tried this knows, it's not straightforward because most directories are pseudo-hardlinked according to some hare-brained scheme Apple came up with. (Hard-linked directories actually show up as zero-length regular files with bizarre link counts greater than 128. The link count corresponds to a directory called "dir_$N" (where $N is the link count) inside of a special directory at the root of the Time Machine volume called ".HFS+ Private Directory Data^M" (where the ^M is a literal carriage-return character).)
Here's the script (it's also attached, for convenience). It works pretty much the same as "rsync -av <SRC_DIR> <DST_DIR>" would, if the pseudo-hardlinks weren't in the way. In other words, it just recursively copies the first directory to the second. So the first argument (the source directory) is typically something like
/media/<TIME_MACHINE_VOLNAME>/Backups.backupdb/<HOSTNAME>/Latest/<VOLNAME>
if you want the entire latest backup. It can also be a relative path, if you've already changed to a directory inside the backup.
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May 18, 2010
I want to record an internet radio station starting at 2:00am tomorrow morning. The specific program on the radio station lasts until 6:00am. The command I need to run to record the station is: Code:mplayer http://wjcu.jcu.edu:8001/listen.pls -ao pcm:file=indie_heat_of_the_night.wav -vc dummy -vo nullI'd use cron, but 1. I'm not sure how to and 2. it seems unnecessarily complicated for something that I only want to run once. If cron is the only/easiest solution, I guess I'll just have to resort to that, but I'd rather not.
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Aug 20, 2010
How do you find a file modified March 17, 2010, between 3:30 pm and 4:05 pm? I know that I must be missing something somewhere.How do you search for info like this? I goggled "search files time Linux" and got about 38,300,000 results. I looked through the first four pages and did not see what I was looking for.Do I need to calculate how many minutes ago that is and give that to find.I really want to do this in the GUI so that I can operate on the files found without typing in so much stuff.
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Mar 21, 2010
I have a Time Machine back up of my old macbook that was stolen.
I have installed hfsplus and libhfsp0 via synaptic.
When I ran: 'cat /boot/config-2.6.31-20-generic | grep HFS' in the terminal...
I got:
CONFIG_NET_SCH_HFSC=m
CONFIG_HFS_FS=m
CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS=m
CONFIG_SQUASHFS=m
# CONFIG_SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED is not set
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE=3
I read in some other post that any line starting with '#' needed to end with '=m'
I'd just like to be able to mount my time machine drive.
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Mar 14, 2015
How do I get vlc to start at a specific time in a media file. I can do it easily in mplayer2, mpv but not vlc. Let's say the media file is named abc.avi (file format,container not important for this example.) Also the running time is around 2+ hrs. In mplayer2 and mpv I can simply do :-
Code: Select all$mpv abc.avi --start=00:59:00
And it will start running at that point in time.
In vlc, it also seems to have something at :-
Code: Select all[$] vlc --advanced --help
......
......
Playback control:
--input-repeat <integer [-2147483648 .. 2147483647]>
Input repetitions
--start-time <float> Start time
Now I don't understand what the <float> bit. I tried :-
Code: Select all$vlc abc.avi --start-time=00:59:00
But that didn't work. It's possible that it might be a bug, then again I might not have done it correctly.
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Sep 10, 2009
I would appreciate help with how to extract the date and time from at command jobs. From what I can tell, the date and time is embedded in the file name (/var/spool/atjobs).I'd be using this information in a (bash) shell script.
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Mar 19, 2011
I've been trying to create file sharing between my MacBook Pro and my Lucid Lynx box for time machine backups and media server purposes. I followed this guide:[URL]..Everything seems to work with these exceptions: I can see my LucidLynx box in my finder app in my Mac but only when I run these commands from Ubuntu:
Code:
sudo /etc/init.d/netatalk restart
sudo restart avahi-daemon
If I restart my LucidLynx box then I can't see anything in finder. I can't log into my LucidLynx box from finder. I don't get a bad username or password error it just tells me the connection failed. *Note if I do enter an incorrect username or password it WILL tell me it's incorrect. I've looked at this link below since some people have used it in theses forums but it's a bit dated[URL]..
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Jul 19, 2010
I have a remote Debian 5 machine on which I'm trying to extract a tar-file (Django 1.2.1, but that's unimportant). The first 1300 or so files extracts just fine (of about 2800 in total), after which errors liketar: Django-1.2.1/tests/urls.py: Cannot open: No such file or directoryshows up for the rest of the files, finally ending up with atar: Error exit delayed from previous errorsI use the commandtar xzvf Django-1.2.1.tar.gzI've also tried with sudo (but I'm extracting in my home directory, which I should obviusly have permissions to use without). I've tried gunzipping first (runs flawlessly) and then running tar xvf, but to no avail. I've fetched the file using wget:
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May 8, 2010
I have this file that is in ZIP. I can open it and browse the files inside via archive manager. But extracting it gives me an error. When using GUI it says that 'ERROR while extracting files'
and in command line when I command:
unzip -q myfile.zip
It display this errors
file #2109: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2122072556
file #2110: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121511988
file #2111: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121511886
file #2112: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121375823
file #2113: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121310073
file #2114: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121282474
file #2115: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121107851
file #2116: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121015601
file #2117: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2120957317
file #2118: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2120906286
file #2119: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2120906193
I just need to find a way to extract my file.
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Oct 9, 2010
I'm trying to extract a file from a zipped archive, and receive an error message saying "caution: filename not matched:".
I suspect the route cause of this is that the original filename contained accented characters (which now show as question marks in the zipped filename). I've tried renaming the file in the archive, but get the same error.
I'm using 9.10 (Karmic).
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Apr 26, 2010
ish but I did manage to right-click the Firefox tar.bz2 file and choose to 'extract here'...now I've got the new extracted folder on the desktop but I'm lost as to how to run the installation of the 3.7 alpha 4 release.
9.10 Wubi with XP until 10.04
Google Chrome
Widmer Drifter Pale Ale
Tommyknocker Pick Axe Pale Ale
1992 Davies Washburn N4 w/ Suhr SSV/DSH+ pups
Jazz and Prog Rock, Dream Theatre & Porcupine Tree
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Aug 9, 2011
My OS is Fedora 14 - 64bit. I want to extract and install this file "LEXMARK-INKJET-LEGACY-wJRE-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm.sh.tar.gz". At the moment this is in the download box in the top left corner of my monitor.
I have tried several ways, but all I get is Command Line Output. Gzip:stdin: unexpected end of file./bin/gtar: unexpcted EOF archive. /bin/gtar: error is not recoverable: exiting now.
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Jul 17, 2010
I'm trying to extract the audio from an mp4 video file and convert it to mp3 using ffmpeg. The problem is that the resulting audio file is only 3m2s long, whereas the video file is 8m15s long. Anyone know why the audio file is being truncated? Am I doing something wrong? Apart from being truncated the mp3 file plays perfectly. Here's what ffmpeg has to say about the video file:
Code:
Seems stream 1 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 59.83 (59834/1000) -> 29.92 (359/12)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Part1.mp4':
Duration: 00:08:15.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 541 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
Stream #0.1(und): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1152x720, 29.92 tbr, 29.92 tbn, 59.83 tbc
And here's the command I'm using to extract and convert the audio:
Code:
ffmpeg -i Part1.mp4 -ab 128k Part1.mp3
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Feb 11, 2010
I am trying to extract data from the xml file using c coding. here is the sample code. this code gets compiled with errorfree. but the call back functions start and end are not invoked. coding:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<expat.h>
[code]...
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Jan 25, 2010
I have a bunch of tar files in a folder with the name in 'file_name.MMDDYYYY.HH.mm.SS.tar' format. I need to write a shell script that picks latest and greatest of the above tar files and extracts it to a particular folder
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May 24, 2010
I am really trying to learn the heart of linux, and not rely on gui's and package managers for everything. I am trying to download firefox 3.6. I downloaded the arc file, and extracted it to my home folder, but I don't know what to do next. I am also clueless as to how to install tar or tar.gz files, and tell them where to go, etc. Firefox is the priority question here. I am sure I can get it from the package manager, but I want to learn to do it with the arc files, and tar files, etc, and not rely on the gui for everything like in Windows. I am a Linux newbie, converting to Linux for hobby and educational purposes, but I have no direction, or no sense of where to go, or how to learn. I am running Kubuntu 10.04 LTS.
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Nov 22, 2010
I have a log file and want to extract all blocks of text that start with START and ends with END. Each block is 5 lines.
Code:
--- START
blah blah blah
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Apr 28, 2010
So at work I usually forget to shut down my computer at the end of the day 5:30 and they switch the breaker off at 6pm which cant be good way to shut down a computer. So i was doing some googling and this is what i come up with.
this is the example i found online Code: #crontab -e -u root Code: 0 20 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now since the above turns it down at 8pm i need to edit it to 5 30pm
Code: 0 17:30 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now would this be correct?
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Apr 23, 2011
There are some log files that I wish to get some information from (Apache Access Log) but it is huge! All I need as of right now is any information from date and time A to date and time B. What commands can I use to extract this information from the access_log and put it into another file with just that information? I created a file called "access_info" by doing
Code:
touch access_info
but I was not sure where to go from there.
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Feb 22, 2011
I have a file which looks something like this:
##########
some
text
text also includes empty lines
##########
some
more
text
##########
Basically all sections are separated by 10 hashes and I need to somehow only print all lines in the last section (the "some more text" part in the example above"). I tried all kind of things with sed and awk but I didn't find any way to identify the last "section".
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Feb 28, 2010
I use Lenny, and was trying to mount a .iso image, supposedly a cd imagem.
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This is what I get from dmesg | tail:
debian:/home/zac/cscd# dmesg | tail
[ 1811.505199] floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
[ 1811.505207] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
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I did a little research on the web and it seems that this file is not really a cd image, but simply data in a .img file. What do you think of that?
debian:/home/zac/cscd# file cscd3.iso
cscd3.iso: data
Some people recommend to extract the data via the dd command, but it didn't seem very safe for me to do that!
[URL]
is it possible to extract the data into a directory (instead of a device) using dd? This file is supposed to be a software. I wanted to run it on wine by keeping it mounted on a mount point in my file system. Does it make any sense to try to do this if the file simply isn't a cd image?
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May 24, 2011
I need to know file names in torrent without opening torrent client. Know and extract for further actions.
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Aug 22, 2011
I'm trying to allow a specific group on my machine to execute one command with sudo without requiring a password, so what I want to do is add something like this to sudoers:
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argument1 needs to be a url : http://subdomain1.subdomain2.domain.com
argument2 needs to be a path of the form /var/www/demo/SomeFolder/application/config/config.php
How do I put in a regex form that sudoers will understand ? I tried reading the sudoers manual, but it didn't help a lot .
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How to refresh a page automatically?Say for example i need to refresh page in ubuntuforums to get new questions.I feel lazy to refresh the page often.Is it possible to refresh the page automatically in a specific time interval?I have tried ReloadEvery Firefox Add-on.But it refresh all the tabs.What i want is i want to refresh a page in a particular TAB.
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Jun 13, 2011
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 in a computer with a 7200rpm HD, 8Gb Ram, and a Core i7, and the time it takes to load the desktop is insane. There are threads that mention the problem of gnome looking for nonexistent floppy drives and to solve the problem by disabling that in the BIOS (option I don't have). Anyway, besides that problem, by running at startup a gnome-terminal with the iotop command, I noticed that two processes have a huge i/o load on the system: google desktop and ubuntu one. I would like those programs to run as part of the startup process, but be launched after several seconds (to allow the rest of the programs to load). Is there any way I can achieve this? I think there should be a way modifying the commands under startup application, but I cannot find anything that works.
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Aug 10, 2011
I'm looking to find a way to schedule my computer to wake up at say 7:00am. Every night before I go to bed, I put my computer into suspend so the fan doesn't wake me (old computer). I can't seem to find a task scheduler that allows me to be able to wake the system.
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Create a file. change its permissions at a specific time. change the permission.
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