Pkg New [work] - Restoretools

While standard tools like tmutil exist, they are often limited to initiating backups or basic exclusions. restoretools , often maintained by developers like Jacob Relkin and others in the open-source community, provides deep forensic and extraction capabilities.

Originally seeded to internal Apple engineers, is a deployment package designed for the macOS environment. Unlike standard consumer applications, it does not install to the /Applications folder; instead, it populates the hidden /AppleInternal/Applications directory. restoretools pkg new

The --recursive-deps flag ensures nested dependencies (dependencies of dependencies) are also captured. While standard tools like tmutil exist, they are

| Argument | Description | |----------|-------------| | --name | Unique identifier for the package (e.g., apache2_custom , libssl_1.1.1 ) | | --source | Absolute path to the directory or binary to package | While standard tools like tmutil exist