{"id":2144,"date":"2012-11-20T09:29:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T00:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-11-20\/2144"},"modified":"2012-11-20T09:29:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T00:29:17","slug":"solution-to-time-machine-failures-after-having-replaced-a-symbolic-link-with-an-actual-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-11-20\/2144","title":{"rendered":"Solution To Time-Machine Failures After Having Replaced a Symbolic Link with an Actual Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p class='subtle-less'>( This article is of little interest to normal readers of my blog; <span class='nobr'>I put<\/span> it here for the benefit of folks searching for <span class='nobr'>a solution.<\/span> )<\/p>\n\n<p>Time Machine backups fail if you replace <span class='nobr'>a symbolic<\/span> link to <span class='nobr'>a directory<\/span> with an actual directory.\n(In my case, the symbolic link was to <span class='nobr'>a directory<\/span> on another disk.)<\/p>\n\n<p>The solution is to perform a Time Machine backup after deleting the symlink, <i>then<\/i> create the actual\ndirectory. Time Machine backups will then work.<\/p>\n\n<p>Prior to finding this solution, <span class='nobr'>I had tried<\/span> visiting the mounted Time Machine backups in Terminal to delete the old\nsymlinks, but the deletions always silently failed. Trying to remove the ACLs <span class='nobr'>(&#8220;chmod -N&#8221;)<\/span>\nalso silently failed. <span class='nobr'>It was very<\/span> frustrating.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Machine backups fail if you replace a symbolic link to a directory with an actual directory. (In my case, the symbolic link was to a directory on another disk.)<\/p> <p>The solution is to perform a Time Machine backup after deleting the symlink, then create the actual directory. Time Machine backups will then work.<\/p> <p>Prior to finding this solution, I had tried visiting the mounted Time Machine backups in Terminal to delete the old symlinks, but the deletions always silently failed. Trying to remove the ACLs (\"chmod -N\") also silently failed. It was very frustrating.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}