Re: How can I remove a no longer used time machine backup?

Le 6 déc. 2011 à 14:02, Jerry Levan a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> I used an attached disk for several weeks for a time machine backup destination.
> 
> After I added a NAS I no longer had any use for the older Time Machine backup.
> 
> The backup is heavily protected by ACLs and I don't seem to be able to find
> a magic command line that will recursively strip the ACL protections so I
> can delete the 'whole thing'.

Hello Jerry,

Perhaps could you try this one:

	sudo chmod -RN /path/to/backupdir


> Google seemed to think that there is a function 'fsaclctl' that can remove
> ACLs from a device but it does not appear to exist in mac osx 10.7.2 client.

ACLs came with Tiger, and fsaclctl was there mainly to (de)activate acl support on a volume.

HTH,
Axel