[dnanian]

First, I used the wrong term -- sorry. I didn't mean "much" in quantity terms, I meant for permissions -- trying to copy a whole system, and authorizing against the whole thing.

But, regarding the rest -- sorry. We can't do that... and even if we could, they'd be seen by Finder anyway, since you'd have to mount (or we would)... and Spotlight sees the files as soon as they hit the file system, since that's all done with kqueues.

Block restore -- the only real way to avoid mounting -- couldn't be done to a folder either, because it happens at far too low a level. You'd have to replace the *entire* drive with the restoration... and then it gets seen, and indexed. Etc.

So, unfortunately, we don't look to be the solution to your needs. Sorry, Eric!