time machine headache

[Alandata Recovery]

I have a 5tb seagate with TM

Customer wants his TM complete.

I imaged the drive but mac wont mount

and wont repair.

So I have to use DR programs to try to copy the files.

The TM folder structure creates a billion links to files that bog down the copy.

Hasn't this been solved?

Cant a program descend the folders and only copy the unique versions and ignore the linkked duplicates? Why is this so hard.

Or I am doing something wrong.

I note that many DR companies simply say they wont do TM and carbon Copy Cloner also says "sorry not doing TM"

I have tried RS, UFS and UFS pro

UFS ran overnight and copied 4gb.

This is ridiculous - what the hell is it doing?  reading forever with an occaisional write.

Is there some setting I have wrong ?

Is it really this bad?

Here are the settings I have

DISPLAY PROGRESS 

with enabled it spends hours and hours trying to calculate the the gigabytes which ends up with EXABYTES of fake numbers.

So thats off.

RECOVER EXTENDED ATTRIBUTES

maybe should be off...

RESTORE SYMBOLIC LINKS

off

but not sure about this - hoped it would skip the fake links to the original files

DEDUPLICATION

disabled.

When I have used this before UFFS made a folder that is apparently every file that its copying in one gigantic pile

Then it what compares each file before it copies it and if its the same then it skips?

The problem is the giganto folder is so full that NTFS goes to sleep trying to add or find a file.

This isnt NTFS but - I dunno - maybe its the answer....

Question 1: So any advice for this ?

Question 2:

Apples weak sauce FSCK is useless.

DATA RESCUE? used to actually repair the file system - but I think its no longer current...

I havent tried command line DISKUTIL commands yet -maybe that would work.

Thanks for letting me rant

APPLE - GRRRRRR ! ! !

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[RecuperoDati299]

Hello

you are not aware of the real point.

99,99% of that structure are symlinks

You should copy off only the most recent subdir in the structure

and it will process the whole copy correctly

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[Alandata Recovery]

what should I copy with ?

How?

I realize that 99% is links

But all those links choke most of the tools that I have tried.

CarbonCopyCloner - refuses TM because of this.

Recent versions of macos have some new special handling of TM folders.

In this case macos doesnt see the filesystem.

So some recovery tool must be used.

UFS Pro goes into a coma looking at these folders.

So what is your method please.

Thanks

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looks like diskutility restore is the ticket...

[Alandata Recovery]

So

Customer gave me a bare seagate 5tb.

Drive had corrupt startup.

Fixed and cloned to a new 6tb portable USB.

But the drive would not mount.

After examination I figured out that the original seagate had been formatted using 4k sectors

But I cloned it to a 512b sector usb drive.

So all the gpt maps were wrong.

gpt table that should be at sector 1 was at sector 8.

So a recloned the bad drive to another seagate 5tb sata

then plugged it into a seagate usb3 dock

The Seagate dock virtually converts 8 sectors to 4k sector mapping

Now the gpt table appears to start at 1

now the drive mounts under macos

and diskutil restore is running full speed.

its cloning at 180mb/s

wahoo!

[RecuperoDati299]

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