What does the -v option for tmutil restore exactly do? — by BrianBaughn and bogdanw on MacRumors Forums

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Thread about tmutil restore. Nobody confirmed what -v does; a reply guesses verbose. The useful part quotes the ss64 reference: restore behaves much like Finder with a cp-style destination, Time Machine metadata is removed from restored items, root is not strictly required and tmutil does no permission preflighting. Man pages differ between macOS versions, so run man tmutil for yours.

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Source: What does the -v option for tmutil restore exactly do? by BrianBaughn and bogdanw on MacRumors Forums. Licence: Link only (©).

Source reviewed: 2026-11-02
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