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emcrisostomo / Time-Machine-Cleanup

Zsh script to clean up Time Machine backups and reduce its size
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No ./configure script? #9

Closed ecjb1969 closed 2 years ago

ecjb1969 commented 2 years ago

I tried running autogen.sh and I have XCode installed, but it doesn't work:

ecjb@ECJBMBP21 Time-Machine-Cleanup % ./autogen.sh ./autogen.sh: line 20: autoreconf: command not found

ecjb1969 commented 2 years ago

When doing a git clone, the configure script is missing. It is only when downloading the release that the configure script is found.

BTW: how do I download the dialog package? brew install dialog or something similar?

ecjb1969 commented 2 years ago

brew install dialog did indeed install that package. However, attempting to use it with no parameters led to a hard-to-use menu. I'm used to the ncurses-style menuing where the arrow keys and tab switch the different buttons. Using these keys broke the menu, and pressing CTRL+C brought me back to the menu.

When using the -d days parameter, I got an error something along the lines of "Unexpected name xxx.backup. Aborting." After cleaning up using the -n num parameter and repeating -d days, the error went away. I think maybe a better behavior would be to skip directories it doesn't recognize?

emcrisostomo commented 2 years ago

Hi,

On your questions:

In the meantime, I'm closing this issue, and feel free to open another one to describe the issue you're facing.

ecjb1969 commented 2 years ago

I have a feeling that it was a one-off issue. Perhaps a backup got interrupted and was resumed later, causing the naming issue. Like I mentioned, using the -n num parameter solved the problem.

Also, the dialog-driven script did not behave as expected when using cursor keys and tab to attempt to navigate the menu. Weirdly, it seemed to work better over SSH to my other machine. I usually use iTerm, so I don't know if this caused the odd ncurses-style menu issue.

The machine that had the xxx.backup issue also is one that backs up across the network to the other machine.

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On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 7:37 AM Enrico Maria Crisostomo < @.***> wrote:

Hi,

On your questions:

  • Yep, the configure script is generated by the build system, and it's not checked in into the repository.
  • On the unexpected backup name: quite some time has passed since I wrote this script, so it's likely some behaviour has changed. Do you have an example of the invalid naming?

In the meantime, I'm closing this issue, and feel free to open another one to describe the issue you're facing.

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