Re: Copying off Time Machine?

Christopher Wolf <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:31:17 -0400
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On Sep 29, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> What is the best way to copy a deep and large folder hierarchy (that may be a backup of a partition, but not the startup partition), which may contain aliases, symbolic links, and all sort of things (but not e.g. OS devices), from within the TM backup to another location and preserve everything including metadata.

Using the Finder or the Time Machine Starfield is the recommended method for doing a faithful restore of everything from a Time Machine backup.

- Chris

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