problem with linking openssl for mailsend

[Fred Wright]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2020, at 17:15, macports at parvis.nl wrote:
>
>> my development machine is a macmini. the harddisk failed, so i restored time machine to a new disk.

Did you try recovering the disk contents with ddrescue?

>> but, the time machine backup (using directory hardlinks) had many missing directories, so most of my development is gone forever.
>>
>> so it seems i cannot trust time machine, any suggestions are welcome ;-)
>
> Sorry to hear that...
>
> Time machine does indeed use hard links but that's an implementation detail that you probably aren't supposed to need to know or care about.
>
> If you lost data that you thought was backed up to time machine, I hope you'll send feedback about your experience to Apple.
>
> https://feedbackassistant.apple.com

Which will probably get a "working as intended".

TimeMachine has always secretly excluded certain "system" directories from 
backups, with no GUI option to change that behavior.  Somewhere along the 
line, I found out about this, resulting my adding the following to its 
preferences file:

MacPro:~ fw$ plutil -p /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
[...]
   "IncludeByPath" => [
     0 => "/Applications"
     1 => "/Developer"
     2 => "/Library"
     3 => "/System"
     4 => "/bin"
     5 => "/private"
     6 => "/sbin"
     7 => "/usr"
   ]
[...]

Note that this is for 10.9.

Fred Wright