This is the companion page to my Backup page.
Here’s how to restore Claudia’s iPhoto library from the backup:
`sudo rsync -av --delete "/Volumes/Claudias Backup/Claudia Pyrobombus/Pictures/iPhoto Library 2003-2006" "/Users/claudia/Pictures"`
Use `-avn` to do a *dry run*. Yes, there is a reason this is here. → 2006-10-14 iPhoto Corruption.
Here’s how to copy the latest iTunes library from the backup on a new workstation:
`rsync --archive --modify-window=1 --verbose --delete /cygdrive/e/Pyrobombus/iTunes My\ Documents/My\ Music`
Since some of the filenames seem to be invalid filenames on Windows, I get lots of “file has vanished” errors while restoring. Gah! 👎 😟
#Backup
If you restart iTunes after such a restore operation and it looks just like before, then maybe you need to delete the iTunes Library.itl file – I thought the delete option would delete files that no longer appear on the target disk, but I guess I was wrong. Once you do that and start iTunes, you’ll see how it rebuilds your library.
– Alex Schroeder 2008-05-23 09:42 UTC