Re: Time Machine's volume uuid -- what does it match against?
Re: Time Machine's volume uuid -- what does it match against?
- Subject: Re: Time Machine's volume uuid -- what does it match against?
- From: Michael Watson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:33:46 -0700
what i mean by "higher-level goal" is more like:
what is your software actually doing that you want to ignore things at the device level? what context does your code run in? (IOKit driver? daemon? userland app?) what does "different handling" mean?
you are correct that you can never assume the volume name of a backup disk. you *can* assume the name of the backup store folder, which is always "Backups.backupdb", and it lives at the root of the volume.
--
michael
On 20 Jul, 2016, at 12:15, Jim O'Connor <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> My higher level goal is to recognize partitions that TM will actively try to use on so I can avoid them. Media with TM data not related to this machine need different handling. I need to be sure I don’t interfere with TM in any way.
>
> I don’t believe using the partition name alone will be sufficient.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> On Jul 20, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Michael Watson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> hi Jim,
>>
>> the ID emitted by the destinatininfo verb is not a volume UUID. it's a unique identifier used by Time Machine to track a collection of information about a specific backup destination. (we refer to it as the "destination ID".) the ID is used with other verbs like removedestination:
>>
>> sudo tmutil removedestination <destination_id>
>>
>> what's your higher-level goal? for most "i need to ignore TM stuff" situations, it's sufficient (and most-correct) to ignore the Backups.backupdb directory at the root of any volume. (for example, a disk with a TM backup store could be connected to a machine but not be one of that machine's backup disks.)
>>
>>
>> --
>> michael
>> formerly time machine
>>
>>
>> On 20 Jul, 2016, at 10:03, Jim O'Connor <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> On El Cap (10.11.5) when I do
>>>
>>> tmutil destinationinfo -X
>>>
>>> I get a uuid which doesn’t match anything in
>>>
>>> diskutil info devnode
>>>
>>>
>>> Where do I look to get the same UUID that Time Machine is using? I need to avoid the media that the OS is using for Time Machine.
>>>
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
>>> <plist version="1.0">
>>> <dict>
>>> <key>Destinations</key>
>>> <array>
>>> <dict>
>>> <key>Kind</key>
>>> <string>Local</string>
>>> <key>ID</key>
>>> <string>EEDAB9D5-740E-4E11-BC39-52A4B6E58638</string>
>>> <key>Name</key>
>>> <string>TimeMachineHD</string>
>>> <key>LastDestination</key>
>>> <integer>1</integer>
>>> <key>MountPoint</key>
>>> <string>/Volumes/TimeMachineHD</string>
>>> </dict>
>>> </array>
>>> </dict>
>>> </plist>
>>>
>>>
>>> Device Identifier: disk2s2
>>> Device Node: /dev/disk2s2
>>> Whole: No
>>> Part of Whole: disk2
>>> Device / Media Name: TimeMachineHD
>>>
>>> Volume Name: TimeMachineHD
>>>
>>> Mounted: Yes
>>> Mount Point: /Volumes/TimeMachineHD
>>>
>>> File System Personality: Journaled HFS+
>>> Type (Bundle): hfs
>>> Name (User Visible): Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
>>> Journal: Journal size 155648 KB at offset 0x3a38000
>>> Owners: Enabled
>>>
>>> Partition Type: Apple_HFS
>>> OS Can Be Installed: Yes
>>> Media Type: Generic
>>> Protocol: USB
>>> SMART Status: Not Supported
>>> Volume UUID: 5A69DD5E-D6B9-31B7-8CD6-FC377EBC5F18
>>> Disk / Partition UUID: 620E6E7B-7C47-4930-B5F7-5C7E68C3B025
>>>
>>> Total Size: 2.0 TB (2000054960128 Bytes) (exactly 3906357344 512-Byte-Units)
>>> Volume Free Space: 2.0 TB (1993384857600 Bytes) (exactly 3893329800 512-Byte-Units)
>>> Device Block Size: 512 Bytes
>>> Allocation Block Size: 4096 Bytes
>>>
>>> Read-Only Media: No
>>> Read-Only Volume: No
>>>
>>> Device Location: External
>>> Removable Media: No
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for looking.
>>>
>>> Jim
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