MacOSX: Manually restoring TimeMaschine Backup

In case you are a CLI junkie as myself and want to restore some files from a time maschine backup manually with the CLI (or using the finder), you will notice that the restored files cannot be changed. The restored files are copied with an ACL on the time machine backup witch prevents changes to those files. You need to remove the ACL from the restored files:

chmod -R -N restored-files/

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