tmfs

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NAME

   tmfs - Time Machine File System

SYNOPSIS

   tmfs hfs-root-mount time-machine-mount [fuse options...]

DESCRIPTION

   tmfs creates a read-only virtual filesystem which helps you to read your Apple Time Machine backup by reconstructing the hard-linked directories from the HFS+ metadata directory.

   You can browse the mounted time-machine-mount normally and recover data from any backup point.

   tmfs must be run as the root user, but the mounted time-machine-mount can be accessed by any user, based upon the options passed to FUSE. See OPTIONS below.

OPTIONS

   hfs-root-mount
          The path to the mount point of your HFS+ Time Machine volume.
          You must mount the Time Machine device prior to running tmfs.  See the EXAMPLES section below.

   time-machine-mount
          The path where the Time Machine will be mounted.  This should be an empty directory.

   fuse options
          A comma separated list of options that will be passed to fuse(8).  See fuse(8) for available options. To be able to access the volume under a normal user account you should set
          the uid, gid and allow_other options.

EXAMPLES

   mkdir /mnt/hfs /mnt/tm
   mount /dev/sdXX /mnt/hfs
   tmfs /mnt/hfs /mnt/tm -ouid=$(id -u $USER),gid=$(id -g $USER),allow_other

AUTHORS

   Alexandre Bique <bique.alexandre@gmail.com>

   This manual page was contributed for Debian by
   Nicholas Robinson-Wall <nick@robinson-wall.com>

SEE ALSO

   fuse(8)

                                                                                   October 31, 2012                                                                                TMFS(1)