SuperDuper

I was advised to get "SuperDuper" to make a bootable clone for my macbookpro.
Aside that registering the service is nightmarish, I'm unsure about this issue:
I have Time Machine and 2 Seagate Back Up Plus for Mac external Hard drives as backup.
Should I erase and partition one of my Seagates to hold the SuperDuper data?

flawlessnyc wrote:
I was advised to get "SuperDuper" to make a bootable clone for my macbookpro.
Aside that registering the service is nightmarish, I'm unsure about this issue:
I have Time Machine and 2 Seagate Back Up Plus for Mac external Hard drives as backup.
Should I erase and partition one of my Seagates to hold the SuperDuper data?
SuperDuper is Super. Period. Lots of Pros make HD clones, there are MANY advantanges to a HD clone.
You need multiple backup and archive methods.
See here:
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection
HD clones (see below for full advantages / drawbacks)
Drawbacks:
1. HD clones can be incrementally updated to hourly or daily, however this is time consuming and HD clones are, often, a week or more old, in which case data between today and the most fresh HD clone can and would be lost (however this gap is filled by use of HD archives listed above or by a TM backup).
2. Like all HD-based data is subject to ferromagnetic and mechanical failure.
Advantages:
1. HD clones are the best, quickest way to get back to 100% full operation in mere seconds.
2. Once a HD clone is created, the creation software (Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper) is no longer needed whatsoever, and unlike TM, which requires complex software for its operational transference of data, a HD clone is its own bootable entity.
3. HD clones are unconnected and isolated from recent corruption.
4. HD clones allow a “portable copy” of your computer that you can likewise connect to another same Mac and have all your APPS and data at hand, which is extremely useful.
5. Rather than, as many users do, thinking of a HD clone as a “complimentary backup” to the use of TM, a HD clone is superior to TM both in ease of returning to 100% quickly, and its autonomous nature; while each has its place, TM can and does fill the gap in, say, a 2 week old clone. As an analogy, the HD clone itself is the brick wall of protection, whereas TM can be thought of as the mortar, which will fill any cracks in data on a week, 2-week, or 1-month old HD clone.
6. Best-idealized 2nd platform redundancy for data protection, and 1st level for system restore of your computers internal HD. (Time machine being 2nd level for system restore of the computer’s internal HD).
7. *Level-2 security of your vital data.
HD cloning software options:
1. SuperDuper HD cloning software APP (free)
2. Carbon Copy Cloner APP (will copy the recovery partition as well)
3. Disk utility HD bootable clone.

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Can Superduper and Time machine write to the same external volume.

I just setup a 750 GB external drive single partition using firewire 800. Any problem with superduper and time machine writing to the same volume?
Ron

Can Superduper and Time machine write to the same external volume.
Yes, they can write to the same partition.
I am doing this, and can report no problems so far. TM still backs up and SuperDuper is bootable.

Hard drive filled up after I did back up using Superduper

I bought a new Macbook Air. I was going to back up my old Macbook Air data onto an external drive before I set up the new Macbook Air. Also my old Macbook Air (1.86 GHz, 120GB HDD) had a broken hinge and I was going to take it to the Apple A/S center to have the hinge repaired. So I wanted to back up my data just in case.
I have backed up the data from the old Macbook Air using the same external drive twice before using Superduper and it seemed to go fine both occasions. I have OS 10.6.0 on the old Macbook Air.
I am typing this on the new Macbook Air by the way (2.16GHz, 256 GB, 4GB memory).
I use the unregistered version of the Superduper that requires you to erase and then do a full backup.
I plugged in the external drive using a powered USB hub. (On previous occasions I have used a USB cord that plugs into two computers, as one computer doesn't provide enough power; this time I forgot to set up the second computer and just plugged it into the hub. The blue light came up on the external drive when I plugged it in.)
It came up with "Untitled", an orange icon, on the Superduper window. It asked me whether I want to copy Macintosh HD to "Untitled". I pressed "OK".
It started copying.
Then I was doing something nearby the computer and accidentally tugged on the lid of the Macbook Air. The hinge is broken and as soon as I touched the Macbook Air lid, the lid laid flat on the table, with the laptop completely open. It does that occasionally because the hinge is broken and the slightest pressure on the lid means it will spring right open (180 degrees).
I checked the Superduper window and it seemed to be copying OK. The number of files copied was going up and up.
However I got a message that said that I hadn't ejected the disk properly and that could damage the disk.
I assumed that meant the external drive "Untitled". I thought I should end the copying and start again.
So I quit Superduper. Something strange happened after that. I can't remember what it was exactly. I think it didn't want to quit. I had to use Force Quit.
I then unplugged and plugged the external drive back into the hub. I opened Superduper. This time it had "Untitled 2".
I thought that was strange, and I restarted the computer hoping to see "Untitled" in the Superduper after restarting the computer and opening Superduper again.
However, I got "Untitled 2" again even though the icon of the external hard drive was labeled "Untitled" on my Desktop.
(I think this is where I went wrong.)
I pressed copy again. About halfway through it suddenly stopped and said that the copying had failed.
I unplugged the external hard drive and plugged it in again, and restarted the computer. I opened Superduper again and this time I could not get it to copy. The copy part was grayed out.
I opened Disk Utility and checked the "Untitled" disk. It said it was fine. Verify was OK.
But when I checked the Macintosh HD I got all these error messages and the volume was full. 105GB was used up and 0 GB was available.
Very strange as I had about 20GB available before I tried to do the backup. (I checked the disk capacity of the HD before I did the backup.) I knew for sure that my hard drive was not full before I did the backup.
I tried to repair it but it didn't work. It told me to restart using the operating disk and use First Aid.
I put in the Snow Leopard operating disk in the Superdrive and restarted the computer holding down "C".
The operating disk came up, I chose English and chose Disk Utility. I tried repair. It gave messages that the Library Core had been changed. It said the disk was repaired and OK now. However, the volume was still 105 GB with about 12MB available (before I did the Disk Utility using the OS disc, I deleted a few music files.)
I just restarted the computer after having removed the Superdrive from the computer and it took like twenty minutes to restart. It has restarted though finally (while I am typing this).
I don't know what to do. I don't know what I did to corrupt the disk. I do not want to make things worse. So far the Desktop looks unchanged.
I can't do anything because it seems the computer's hard drive is full eg. browse the internet properly – it keeps coming up with error messages about Preferences being changed.
I think the disk got full because I inadvertently was backing up onto the computer's hard drive (the 'Untitled 2' was probably somewhere on the hard drive of the computer, and not the external hard drive.
I am worried that I have wrecked the back up drive and I have ruined the MBA's hard drive.
What should I do?
Should I just delete some files including program files and free up some space at least 2 GB? I can delete heavy duty program files like Adobe Creative Suite from Applications. (I have the disks so I can always reinstall them again.) What about deleting MS Office? (I have the disk for that.) Will doing that affect the Photoshop files and the Word files I already have?
What do you recommend I delete so that I can free up lots of space?
And how do I find what is filling up my laptop and why there is almost zero GB left on my hard drive. If I did do a backup onto the hard drive where do I find this and how can I delete it?
I was planning to do the backup and on the new MBA do a migration of everything on the backup using the Superdrive – a clone. I have done this before (when I bought the old MBA) and it worked (I did clean install a few times when I mucked up the hard drive in the past and restored the clone that was on the backup external drive onto the computer).
How can I tell if the external drive that I tried backing up onto is OK?
I thought I would check here before I did anything in case I made things worse.
I am going to use the latest operating system on the new Macbook Air. I have read here that 10.6.0 is risky – all your data can suddenly be erased.
I will also update the old Macbook Air to 10.6.4 once I have got things fixed on it.
Thanks for any advice.

There may be one or more large folders in your /Volumes folder that shouldn't be there and are using up your disk space.
/Volumes is an 'invisible" folder at the root level of your internal drive which is supposed to contain only the "mount points" for your attached disk volumes, but sometimes an actual folder can mistakenly get created there, often as a result of a failed copy operation such as you experienced with SuperDuper. Such a "ghost" folder will have a name similar to a real external drive, and can contain data that was meant for the real external drive but never got there. When the real external volume then re-mounts, it can no longer use its own name for the mount point in /Volumes because that name is already "taken", and so an extra number gets appended to the mount point. This may have happened twice in your situation, since the actual drive is now mounting as "Untitled 2".
/Volumes is a hidden folder, but it's easy to peek into it. First you should *eject and then physically disconnect all external drives*. Then:
Finder>Go menu> Go to Folder
enter /Volumes and click Go
You should see an alias to the startup volume. Don't touch this, or any other aliases. Do you also see a large folder named "Untitled, and perhaps another folder named "Untitled 1," which are not aliases? If so, delete them, and restart.

Time Machine and SuperDuper on External Hard Drive?

Hi!
I really need a back up solution and after reading a lot of different articles and forums I think using Time Machine and SuperDuper may be the best option for me so I'm looking for advice:
Should I partition an external hard drive and have part of the partition for Time Machine and part for my SuperDuper clone? If I do this how much space should I give to each partition (the computer is 250GB and I'm using about 90GB, I mostly deal with documents, photos and music, I don't have movies or many huge files on my computer)
Will a 500GB external hard drive be sufficient and if the Time Machine partition becomes full as I assume it will in a few months if I understand correctly it will just start overwriting older back ups?
I know the ideal might be to have an external hard drive dedicated to time machine and one dedicated to SuperDuper but to be honest I can't afford 2 hard drives at the moment so I plan to partition (unless you strongly advise against it) and I'll also back up extremely important files with Dropbox. I'm at that stage where I just need to start doing back ups and I like the idea of it happening in the background via Time Machine and doing a weekly clone with SuperDuper. I'd like to get started immediately.
Any advice or problems I should be aware of would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Effie Darrow wrote:
Should I partition an external hard drive and have part of the partition for Time Machine and part for my SuperDuper clone?
imagine that drive croaks. both backups will be lost @ the same time ...
If I do this how much space should I give to each partition (the computer is 250GB and I'm using about 90GB, I mostly deal with documents, photos and music, I don't have movies or many huge files on my computer)
see this read about how much space you should give TM: http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/1.html.
as for a SD clone, the size of your startup disk will suffice.
Will a 500GB external hard drive be sufficient
see above
and if the Time Machine partition becomes full as I assume it will in a few months if I understand correctly it will just start overwriting older back ups?
deleting them, yes.
I know the ideal might be to have an external hard drive dedicated to time machine and one dedicated to SuperDuper
that would indeed be ideal.
but to be honest I can't afford 2 hard drives at the moment
USB drives are dirt cheap right now but stay away from WD drives.
good luck !
JGG

Warning! Using SuperDuper to clone from an HDD to an SSD might seriously da

WARNING! USING SUPERDUPER TO CLONE FROM AN HDD TO AN SSD MIGHT SERIOUSLY DAMAGE THE HEALTH OF YOUR SSD!
This is the new thread which I referred to when replying to:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2274972&start=0&tstart=0
I used SuperDuper to clone from a VelociRaptor 300GB HDD to an OCZ Agility EX SLC SSD, with disastrous results.
To save me the time of rewriting all the events please refer to the following emails and online submissions:
(Biltan-Wales - 21 Dec 2009 - 11.02 GMT):-
After reading several very favourable product reviews of the above SSD, I have just purchased one from Aria Technology Ltd., to use as a boot drive for my (early 2009) 8-Core 2.93GHz Intel Xeon Nehalem desktop workstation.
Also, prior to purchase of an OCZ SSD, I posted a question on Apple's Discussions' Forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2263023&tstart=0
From the response to this, and from reading several other threads regarding SSDs, I found that several Mac Pro owners are using OCZ SSDs as boot drives, and in some cases employing up to 3 of them.
I received my Agility EX from Aria on 16th. December, and yesterday afternoon I decided to set up my boot drive and 4 drive RAID 0, as described in: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2263023&tstart=0
First of all I used SuperDuper to clone from my VelociRaptor 300GB drive in Bay 1, to my original Apple (WD) 640GB drive in Bay 2.
Then I removed the original Apple drive, and installed it in an ONNTO dataTale TQ-M12H external single enclosure, using a Firewire 800 interface connection. Next I selected this as my boot drive to check it would boot OK, restarted my system, and there was no problem.
So my next step was to install the Agility EX, and another 3 VelociRaptor 300GB drives, in the Mac pro workstation.
First, I reselected VelociRaptor 1 as my boot drive, so that I could use SuperDuper to clone to the Agility EX.
The Agility EX was installed in the lower of the 2 optical bays, and was connected to the pre-wired SATA and power cable, and the VelociRaptors were placed in hard drive bays 2, 3, and 4.
I then started up the Mac Pro, and there were 4 message boxes on the desktop, requesting that the drives should be initialised. So then I used Disk Utility to initialise the 4 drives. The SSD was named "Agility EX Boot", and the others "VelociRaptor 2", VelociRaptor 3, and VelociRaptor 4". The Mac system accepted all 4, and mounted desk top icons for each drive. I cannot remember the exact figure, but the Agility EX was listed as approx. 64GB in Disk Utility after its initialisation. All 4 VelociRaptors are shown as 300.07GB. All drives were formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
The next stage was to use SuperDuper to clone from VelociRaptor 1 to the Agility EX Boot drive.
Everything was fine until 28.00GB had been copied, and then nothing more would copy. The total to be cloned was just under 30GB, which should not have been a problem with a SSD disk capacity of approx. 64GB, but everything was frozen at that point - exactly 28.00GB!
Eventually, my only option was to stop the process, and quit Super Duper.
Then I restarted the system to try again, but this is where there is a real problem now!
My system does not recognise the Agility EX at all now! Also, it is no longer listed in Disk Utility!
The system does not even acknowledge its existence! It is not even shown on the desktop at start-up, whereas I thought that perhaps there might have been another message box requesting that it should be reinitialised.
I tried disconnecting and reconnecting everything - all drives, interface connections, power cables etc., but to no avail!
This morning I tried this again, but still I cannot get my system to even acknowledge the Agility EX, let alone list it!
So at the moment I am still using VelociRaptor 1 as my boot drive, and, in fact, as my main drive, because I am reluctant to use it with the 3 other VelociRaptors as a 4 drive RAID 0 set up until I get this problem with the Agility EX resolved.
(OCZ - 22 Dec 2009 - 18.29 GMT):-
Cloning from a HDD to an SSD is very problematic. I strongly recommend against doing this. Instead you will want to just install normally onto the SSD. You can clone from SSD to SSD, or from HDD to HDD, but going from one to the other can cause issues.
Try disconnecting the drive from the computer for an hour or so. This will allow all power in the drive to fully discharge. This is a way of resetting the drive that can usually recover the drive. Then plug the drive back in. Does the drive show up again?
If so, delete the partition on the drive, then create a new partition and then install the OS onto it clean rather than clone the OS onto the drive. That should resolve the issues you are having.
(Biltan-Wales - 23 Dec 2009 - 16.19 GMT):-
Thank you for your advice.
I have now disconnected the Agility EX SSD, and removed it from my Mac Pro's lower optical bay.
As Christmas is imminent, and I will not be using my system very much over the next few days, I will leave the drive for 4 to 5 days to allow ample time for all the power to discharge.
Then I will reconnect it, and I will let you know whether or not the drive is recognised by my system.
I was not aware that cloning from a HDD to an SSD could be problematic. Several threads on the Apple Support Discussion Forum have recommended using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner for this purpose. SuperDuper is the preferred option of most Forum members, whereas Lloyd Chambers (diglloyd.com), author of "macperformanceguide.com", uses Carbon Copy Cloner to clone his HDD boot drives to his Intel and Crucial SSDs.
After the Agility EX had been set up as my system boot drive, my intention was to use SuperDuper to clone from it to my original Apple (WD) HDD, now in an external enclosure with Firewire 800 interface, and then use SuperDuper's Smart Update for regular backups, so that I always had an up to date spare boot drive for the OS and applications.
The current VelociRaptor 1 boot drive would then be erased, and I would then use the Mac OS Disk Utility to create a 4 drive software RAID ) with the other 3 VelociRaptors, and this would be backed up using Time Machine to my existing WD My Book Studio Edition II 2TB External Hard Drive.
Please correct me if I have misunderstood your advice, but are you saying that I should only use another SSD, and not my original Apple (WD) HDD, as my back-up external boot drive? I don't know of any other Mac users who are using SSDs for that purpose, possibly because of the prohibitive cost of doing so.
I am more than happy to follow your advice to reinstall the Mac OS and my applications cleanly onto the Agility EX, and, in fact, I did exactly that with my first VelociRaptor HDD, before I had SuperDuper. However, that would still leave me with the problem of how to set up and maintain an external back-up system boot drive, without incurring the expense of another SSD. Any suggestions please?
Anyway the most important matter is the existing problem, and I am hoping that following your advice will resolve this.
I will contact you again early next week. In the meantime have a very enjoyable Christmas!
(OCZ - 24 Dec 2009 - 00.25 GMT):-
If the image is of an HDD and that image is then cloned onto an SSD that does tend to be problematic. I do not recommend doing this, as an image of the HDD somewhat regularly does fail to copy onto an SSD and still remain functional or fast.
You can store the image file on any sort of drive. Storing the image file is fine, as that is just a digital file, so the storage medium doesn't matter. Its actually applying that image to a drive is where the problems often occur.
You can image from a HDD to a HDD just fine, or an SSD to an SSD just fine, but going from one to the other is problematic enough that I recommend not doing this. Sometimes it works just fine, but other times it can fail catastrophically to the point of even bricking the drive. To error on the side of caution I recommend just going a clean install on the new SSD.
Once you have that clean install done you can then take an image of that SSD and image on to other SSD's, or store the image on a HDD for backup purposes.
(Biltan-Wales - 29 Dec 2009 - 13.16 GMT)
Thank you for your last email.
Further to your previous email, and my reply of 23/12/2009. this morning I reconnected the Agility EX SSD.
However, unfortunately, the drive has not showed up again on my system. There is no icon for it on the desktop, nor is it listed in Disk utility.
When I checked Serial-ATAS in my Mac Pro's System Profiler, all 6 Intel ICH10 AHCI are listed in the Serial-ATA Device Tree, but, whereas all my other drives are sub-listed, there is nothing underneath the ICH10 AHCI for the lower optical bay.
As the drive has had 6 days to discharge and reset, it would appear that it has not recovered.
Where do I go from here?
I am still awaiting a reply from OCZ, but that is not surprising, because of the different time zones and the Christmas?New Year holiday period.
In the meantime does anybody else have any ideas, please?

Hi thanon,
"So the SSD is not visible, not even in disk utility, even after a restart ?":-
No.
"Check the log of SuperDuper (Window-Show Log); warnings are in red, I think.":-
This is a copy of the log, but it only refers to the original Mac (WD) drive as the Target Volume and it only lists the last Smart Update. There is no record of the original cloning to the same drive on 21st. December, nor of the interim Smart Updates. There is no record logged at all for the OCZ Agility EX SSD, despite the unsuccessful cloning attempt on 21st. December:-
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | SuperDuper!, 2.6.2 (87), path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app, Mac OS 10.6.2 build 10C540 (i386)
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Started on Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Source Volume: VelociRaptor 1, mount: /, device: /dev/disk3s2, media: WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U1, interconnect: Internal SATA, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: 10.6.2 (10C540), capacity: 299.73 GB, used: 30.53 GB, directories: 164608, files: 521266, ejectable: NO, ACLs: Enabled
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Target Volume: Untitled 1, mount: /Volumes/Untitled 1, device: /dev/disk5s2, media: Ext Hard Disk, interconnect: External FireWire, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: 10.6.2 (10C540), capacity: 639.79 GB, used: 30.27 GB, directories: 164519, files: 522654, ejectable: YES, ACLs: Enabled
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Copy Mode : Smart Update
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | PHASE: 1. Prepare to Copy Files
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing VelociRaptor 1
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying the integrity of volinfo.database
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | volinfo.database OK
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on VelociRaptor 1
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for VelociRaptor 1
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Permissions on '/' are enabled.
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing Untitled 1
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Untitled 1
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Untitled 1
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Permissions on '/Volumes/Untitled 1' are enabled.
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that Untitled 1 ACL support matches VelociRaptor 1
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preserving Spotlight state on Untitled 1
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Disabling Spotlight search indexing on Untitled 1
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | PHASE: 2. Copy Files
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Copying files from VelociRaptor 1 to Untitled 1 using Smart Update
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Cloning VelociRaptor 1 to Untitled 1
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Copying copy files with delete using script: /Users/williamtanner/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 27 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 6 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system cache files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Google Desktop Index files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude iTunes Temporary files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 0 commands from copy script /Users/williamtanner/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | /
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | /.vol
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /.vol
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | /cores
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| 11:39:20 AM | Info | Preserving /.Spotlight-V100
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| 11:41:47 AM | Info | /Library
| 11:42:41 AM | Info | /Applications
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /.Trashes
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /.fseventsd
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Preserving /.fseventsd
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /dev
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /net
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /home
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /Volumes
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/My Book
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 3
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 4
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 2
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 1
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/Untitled 1
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Evaluated 685438 items occupying 29.45 GB (164606 directories, 511269 files, 9563 symlinks)
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Copied 463 items totaling 0.69 GB (117 directories, 335 files, 11 symlinks)
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Cloned 29.15 GB of data in 306 seconds at an effective transfer rate of 95.25 MB/s
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Resetting Custom Icon bit on Untitled 1
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | PHASE: 3. After Successful Copy
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Making Untitled 1 bootable
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Blessing OS X System Folder
| 11:44:23 AM | Info | Successfully blessed Mac OS X folder on Untitled 1
| 11:44:23 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Blessing OS 9 System Folder
| 11:44:23 AM | Info | Did not bless Mac OS 9 System Folder on Untitled 1 because it does not exist.
| 11:44:23 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Updating prebinding on Untitled 1
| 11:44:23 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Updating boot cache on '/Volumes/Untitled 1'
| 11:44:30 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache[271] current i386 cache file invalid because /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Desk topServicesPriv has changed
| 11:44:34 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:34 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:38 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache[271] current ppc cache file invalid because /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Desk topServicesPriv has changed
| 11:44:41 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:41 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:45 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache[271] current x86_64 cache file invalid because /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Desk topServicesPriv has changed
| 11:44:48 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:48 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:52 AM | Info | Successfully updated boot cache on Untitled 1
| 11:44:52 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Restoring Spotlight state on Untitled 1
| 11:44:52 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Restoring Spotlight search indexing state on Untitled 1
| 11:44:53 AM | Info | /Volumes/Untitled 1:
| 11:44:53 AM | Info | Indexing enabled.
| 11:44:53 AM | Info | Indexing enabled on Untitled 1
| 11:44:53 AM | Info | Copy complete.
"Maybe turn the MP off, pull the power cord and disconnect all external devices but keyboard and mouse, disconnct the SSD, reconnect and start MP":-
I have tried this several times without any success.
"Also, make sure no programs are running during cloning, and leave the computer alone.":-
SuperDuper was the only program running when I cloned firstly to the Mac (WD) HDD, and secondly to the Agility EX on 21st. December.
Also everything was disconnected before I removed and transferred the Mac HDD to an external enclosure.
After I had checked that the Mac HDD had been cloned successfully, everything was disconnected again before I fitted the Agility Ex and the other 3 VelociRaptors in the lower optical drive bay, and drive bays 2,3 & 4 respectively.
I used a Lindy anti-static Service Kit throughout the whole process. I purchased this originally for when I installed 16GB of Kingston RAM, an ATI Radeon HD4870, and my first VelociRaptor

My 2007 Macbook pro Intel Core 2 Duo   Processor Speed 2.33 GHz has power issues with one or some of my USB powered devices. Last night I could not back up my Lacie external drives with software SuperDuper, hard drive copier. I also had a message that Tim

My 2007 Macbook pro Intel Core 2 Duo   Processor Speed 2.33 GHz has power issues with one or some of my USB powered devices. Last night I could not back up my Lacie external drives with software SuperDuper, hard drive copier. I also had a message that Time machine failed. I have two powered 12V USB
routers that are plugged into a 550VA CyberPower surge protector. I often receive these insufficient USB power for devices messages a dozen times even when I do not have devices like camera, Ipad, Ipod, and Tascam digital audio recorder plugged in. Is there a way to troubleshoot these USB routers or should I consider that one of the routers may be defective and replace them?
David

My 2007 Macbook pro Intel Core 2 Duo   Processor Speed 2.33 GHz has power issues with one or some of my USB powered devices. Last night I could not back up my Lacie external drives with software SuperDuper, hard drive copier. I also had a message that Time machine failed. I have two powered 12V USB
routers that are plugged into a 550VA CyberPower surge protector. I often receive these insufficient USB power for devices messages a dozen times even when I do not have devices like camera, Ipad, Ipod, and Tascam digital audio recorder plugged in. Is there a way to troubleshoot these USB routers or should I consider that one of the routers may be defective and replace them?
David

New hard drive, Mavericks clean install or use SuperDuper

I am replacing hard drive in MacBook Pro. I have a bootable Mavericks installer on thumb drive and an external hard drive with a SuperDuper clone of my current MBP HD. Is there any advantage to a clean install (from the thumb drive and then using SuperDuper) over just using SuperDuper to add the backup to a newly formatted HD?
TIA

PHIemspilot wrote:
Is there any advantage to a clean install (from the thumb drive and then using SuperDuper) over just using SuperDuper to add the backup to a newly formatted HD?
TIA
With a clean install, you'll get the Recovery HD. SuperDuper only clones the Macintosh HD and NOT the Recovery HD.
I believe you can use your SuperDuper clone during the Setup phase so it migrates your user accounts, data and apps.

Auto eject volume with SuperDuper doesn't seem to work

Not sure if there's a problem with my system or what. I use SuperDuper to backup and create a clone of my MacBook Pro and have checked the feature for SuperDuper to eject the mounted volume after the backup is complete. Once the backup is finished, I quit SuperDuper and the icon for my external hard drive then disappears from the Desktop. But the external drive is STILL spinning and doesn't stop -- even if wait a minute or so to keep checking it. Fearing that I will damage the drive, I then go to Disk Utility to select the drive there and eject it. It stops spinning and I disconnect the firewire cable.
I have already contacted SuperDuper. All they can tell me is the feature works for them and that SuperDuper sends the call to Disk Utility to unmount the volume. If so, why would it still appear in Disk Utility when I go there?
Any insights are appreciated.

Can't say, as I don't have Aperture installed- actually did, but trial ran out- to test definitively.
 
 Either someone with same experience will come along and say, or you could try a small controlled experiment to see if perhaps you didn't select All photos on importing the xmp file, etc.
 
 
John "McPhotoman"
 color="#800000" size="2">~~ John McWilliams
 
 
 
 MacBookPro 2 Ghz Intel Core Duo, G-5 Dual 1.8;
 Canon DSLRs

Carbon Copy and SuperDuper FAILED during copy for the 8th time! PLEASE HELP

This is ridiculous! I've spent the past 4 days trying to clone my HD and I'm leaving for about a month in about 3 days and I really need my laptop! Here's the log and I'm hoping you guys can save me!
SuperDuper:
| 11:53:41 PM | Info | SuperDuper!, 2.5 (84), path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app, Mac OS 10.4.11 build 8S2167 (i386)
| 11:53:41 PM | Info | Started on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:53 PM
| 11:53:41 PM | Info | Source Volume: Macintosh HD, mount: /, device: /dev/disk2s2, media: WD i HTS54 External, interconnect: External USB, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: 10.4.11 (8S2167), capacity: 111.47 GB, used: 93.98 GB, directories: 80742, files: 345660, ejectable: NO, ACLs: Disabled
| 11:53:41 PM | Info | Target Volume: Macintosh HD, mount: /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1, device: /dev/disk0s2, media: WDC WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0, interconnect: Internal SATA, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: N/A, capacity: 465.44 GB, used: 0.11 GB, directories: 4, files: 8, ejectable: NO, ACLs: Disabled
| 11:53:41 PM | Info | Copy Mode : Erase, then copy files
| 11:53:41 PM | Info | Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
| 11:53:41 PM | Info | Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist
| 11:53:42 PM | Info | PHASE: 1. Prepare to Copy Files
| 11:53:42 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing Macintosh HD
| 11:53:42 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying the integrity of volinfo.database
| 11:53:42 PM | Info | volinfo.database OK
| 11:53:42 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Macintosh HD
| 11:53:42 PM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 11:53:43 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Macintosh HD
| 11:53:43 PM | Info | Permissions on '/' are enabled.
| 11:53:43 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Repairing permissions on Macintosh HD
| 11:53:43 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Repairing permissions on Macintosh HD
| 11:53:49 PM | Info | parent directory ./Users/Shared/SC Info does not exist
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Started verify/repair permissions on disk disk2s2 Macintosh HD
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Determining correct file permissions.
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ActivityMonitorHelp, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ActivityMonitorHelp, should be 80, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ActivityMonitorHelp, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ActivityMonitorHelp
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ActivityMonitorHelp
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Applications/Utilities/AirPort Setup Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings, should be 80, group is 224
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Applications/Utilities/AirPort Setup Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Applications/Utilities/AirPort Setup Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/CIOSupport, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/CIOSupport, should be 80, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/CIOSupport, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/CIOSupport
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/CIOSupport
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/FireWire.plugin, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/FireWire.plugin, should be 80, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/FireWire.plugin, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/FireWire.plugin
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/FireWire.plugin
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/SP830Series.plugin, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/SP830Series.plugin, should be 80, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/SP830Series.plugin, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/SP830Series.plugin
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/SP830Series.plugin
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter, should be 80, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Symbolic link ./Library/Printers/EPSON/LaserPrinter/Common/PageLibraries/PPBuryInfo.framework /PPBuryInfo->Versions/Current/PPBuryInfo repaired
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Symbolic link ./Library/Printers/EPSON/LaserPrinter/Common/PageLibraries/PPBuryInfo.framework /Resources->Versions/Current/Resources repaired
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/LaserPrinter, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/LaserPrinter, should be 80, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/LaserPrinter, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/LaserPrinter
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/LaserPrinter
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/Libraries, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/Libraries, should be 80, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/Libraries, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/Libraries
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/Libraries
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/PAP.plugin, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/PAP.plugin, should be 80, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/PAP.plugin, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/PAP.plugin
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/PAP.plugin
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/TCPIP.plugin, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/TCPIP.plugin, should be 80, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/TCPIP.plugin, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/TCPIP.plugin
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/TCPIP.plugin
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/USB.plugin, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/USB.plugin, should be 80, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/USB.plugin, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/USB.plugin
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./Library/Printers/EPSON/USB.plugin
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | User differs on ./System/Library/CoreServices/SKPlugins, should be 0, owner is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Group differs on ./System/Library/CoreServices/SKPlugins, should be 0, group is 99
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./System/Library/CoreServices/SKPlugins
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./System/Library/CoreServices/SKPlugins
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r-----
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | Verify/repair finished permissions on disk disk2s2 Macintosh HD
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Erasing Macintosh HD
| 11:54:21 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Preserving Macintosh HD UUID
| 11:54:22 PM | Info | 11FFCEFABA43DE77
| 11:54:22 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Preserving spotlight indexing state
| 11:54:22 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Erasing Macintosh HD
| 11:54:29 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Restoring Macintosh HD UUID (11FFCEFABA43DE77)
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | 11FFCEFABA43DE77
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Restoring Spotlight search indexing state on Macintosh HD
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1:
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | Indexing enabled for volume.
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | Indexing enabled on Macintosh HD
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing Macintosh HD
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Macintosh HD
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Macintosh HD
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | Permissions on '/Volumes/Macintosh HD 1' are enabled.
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that Macintosh HD ACL support matches Macintosh HD
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Preserving Spotlight state on Macintosh HD
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Disabling Spotlight search indexing on Macintosh HD
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | PHASE: 2. Copy Files
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Copying files from Macintosh HD to Macintosh HD
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Cloning Macintosh HD to Macintosh HD
| 11:54:30 PM | Info | Copying copy files using script: /Users/PaulLau/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 11:54:31 PM | Info | Loading 22 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset
| 11:54:31 PM | Info | Loading 6 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system cache files.dset
| 11:54:31 PM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
| 11:54:31 PM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Google Desktop Index files.dset
| 11:54:31 PM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude iTunes Temporary files.dset
| 11:54:31 PM | Info | Loading 0 commands from copy script /Users/PaulLau/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 11:54:31 PM | Info | /
| 11:54:34 PM | Info | /cores
| 11:54:34 PM | Info | /.HFS+ Private Directory Data
| 11:54:34 PM | Info | Ignoring /.hotfiles.btree
| 11:54:34 PM | Info | /automount
| 11:54:34 PM | Info | /Users
| 01:15:50 AM | Info | Ignoring /Users/PaulLau/Music/iTunes/Temp File.tmp
| 01:29:23 AM | Info | /usr
| 01:37:30 AM | Error | ***FAILED***: result=256 errno=22 (Unknown error: 0)
Carbon Copy:
(CCC.log)
Operating System: Version 10.4.11 (Build 8S2167)
Hardware:
hw.machine: i386
hw.model: MacBookPro2,2
hw.logicalcpu: 2
hw.physmem: 2147483648
vm.loadavg: 0.23 0.10 0.15
Task: Disk-to-disk clone
Source: Macintosh HD (/dev/disk2s2, 54DEB44B-185A-3372-AA7F-5D7B3AC8ED8D)
Mount point: /
Filesystem: hfs
Capacity: 111.47 GB
Used: 93.99 GB
Available: 17.48 GB
Mac OS X version: 10.4.11
Target: Macintosh HD (/Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/ [/dev/disk0s2, 29D1F59F-2B8F-3AF5-8684-948A10EB6524])
Mount point: /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1
Filesystem: hfs
Capacity: 465.44 GB
Used: 108.80 MB
Available: 465.34 GB
Mac OS X version: Mac OS not installed
Bootability: This volume will be bootable.
Cloning method: Backup everything
Delete items on target that aren't on the source: No
02:00:11 The target volume has ownership enabled.
02:00:11 The target volume has Access Control Lists enabled.
02:00:11 Authenticating...
02:00:13 Initiating synchronization engine...
02:00:15 Cloning...
02:53:46 rsync: readlink_stat("/Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter/Frameworks/BJVersionControl.fr amework/Versions/Current") failed: Invalid argument (22) (51)
02:54:13 rsync: readlink_stat("/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/Halftone/HalftoneIIMo.fram ework/Versions/Current") failed: Invalid argument (22) (51)
04:22:37 rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at /Volumes/Home/Users/bombich/Development/Bombich_Software/rsync-3.0.5/main.c(104 7) [sender=3.0.5] (51)
04:22:37 rsync: Some errors were encountered during the backup., Error code: 51
04:22:38 Sync Engine warnings: (
"rsync: readlink_stat(\"/Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter/Frameworks/BJVersionControl.f ramework/Versions/Current\") failed: Invalid argument (22)",
"rsync: readlink_stat(\"/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/Halftone/HalftoneIIMo.fra mework/Versions/Current\") failed: Invalid argument (22)",
"rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at /Volumes/Home/Users/bombich/Development/Bombich_Software/rsync-3.0.5/main.c(104 7) [sender=3.0.5]"
(console.log)
Disk Utility started.
Preparing to erase : “Macintosh HD”
Creating Partition Map
Formatting Disk
Erase complete.
crontab: no crontab for PaulLau
2009-05-14 08:03:47.562 SuperDuper![3102] .scriptSuite warning for attribute 'boundsAsQDRect' of class 'NSWindow' in suite 'NSCoreSuite': 'NSData<QDRect>' is not a valid type name.
2009-05-14 08:03:47.563 SuperDuper![3102] .scriptSuite warning for type 'NSTextStorage' attribute 'name' of class 'NSApplication' in suite 'NSCoreSuite': AppleScript name references may not work for this property because its type is not NSString-derived.
2009-05-14 08:03:47.563 SuperDuper![3102] .scriptSuite warning for type 'NSTextStorage' attribute 'lastComponentOfFileName' of class 'NSDocument' in suite 'NSCoreSuite': AppleScript name references may not work for this property because its type is not NSString-derived.
2009-05-14 08:03:47.563 SuperDuper![3102] .scriptSuite warning for type 'NSTextStorage' attribute 'title' of class 'NSWindow' in suite 'NSCoreSuite': AppleScript name references may not work for this property because its type is not NSString-derived.
2009-05-14 08:03:47.563 SuperDuper![3102] .scriptSuite warning for attribute 'boundsAsQDRect' of class 'NSWindow' in suite 'NSCoreSuite': 'NSData<QDRect>' is not a valid type name.
2009-05-14 08:03:47.563 SuperDuper![3102] .scriptSuite warning for superclass of class 'NSAttachmentTextStorage' in suite 'NSTextSuite': 'NSString' is not a valid class name.
firefox-bin(3107,0xa000d000) malloc: * Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x1; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
Message was edited by: beat4dasoul

Complete what Kurt has told you first. Then - if you use CCC - check the details in
B4 U post...
noting especially the two links to details for preparation of a target drive and the "Proof of pudding" test.
Then make use of this section of CCC Help.
BTW, having both source and target with the same name is an invitation to a mistake. Rename one or both of them. Use meaningful names to make life easier (and safer) for yourself. Select a volume's icon in the Finder, hit <return>, type the new name, hit <return> again. The OS will notice the new name(s) immediately. Use only simple alphanumeric characters, preferably with no spaces. Even something boring like "myCloneVolume" would be better than what you currently have.
Andreas

Migration assistant/Time Capsule-TM/ Superduper transfer

What would be easier: I am getting a new replacement iMac from Apple after I send back the iMac being replaced. Presently I use Superduper (back up software) to back up my system from my present imac to a FW 800 external hard drive. I also have a new Time Capsule that I have not set up for TM transfers yet since I'm getting the new iMac soon as was waiting for that to arrive to set up the Time Capsule: Would the Time Capsule be a superior way to transfer everything If I hooked it up to the Imac about to be replaced and backed everything up or can I transfer from the Maxtor to the new iMac after arrival. In the past I did Mac-Mac transfers but Apple requires me to send out the faulty (LCD screen) iMac before they send the new replacement. Sorry about the verbose query! It's late here in NYC. dennis

Afaik you could do either. Obviously it would be quicker to use your superduper backup not just because you already have it backed up, but also because the transfer back from your external drive will be MUCH quicker than from a timecapsule.
Your other option would be to setup the time capsule now, take your first back up then return the machine. When the new one arrives, during the initial setup you can chose to restore from a time machine backup there. I guess it comes down to when you want to do the waiting? Before you get your new machine or after =)

SuperDuper and Aperture 3?

A tale of two upgrades. One on my big iron quad core Mac Pro, 3 ghz Intel Zeon processors; one on my 2008 2.53ghz MacBook Pro; both with 4 gig RAM. Migrated database, NOT the images (to save time and heartache). Ran consistency check both times. Same library, essentially -- about 225 gigs on each machine. And what happens?
Big Iron: a world of hurt. Beachballs, freezes, crashes, slow as a pig, grinding harddrive sounds for hours on end. Library is fine, but touch the images and lookout!
Also a missing "tick" for the 32bit option, so no way to try that. Application on boot drive, 225gig library on second terrabyte drive.
Laptop: Smooth as silk. No beachballs, freezes, crashes. Greased lightning, even doing adjustments, even using brushes and curves. No missing "tick" for 32bit option. 225gig library on external 500 gig drive.
Both upgrades were done using the Retail boxed DVD.
And, the laptop is essentially a clone of the big machine. The only difference between them?
Super Duper.
Is it possible SuperDuper is the problem? Anyone else in a world of hurt who also has SuperDuper installed? I know it's a long shot but hey stranger things have happened!

I have SuperDuper and Aperture 3 on a Mac Pro 2.8 Quad-Core 6GB ram and Nividia 8800 GT graphics. I have not had a problem. My Library is smaller than yours (about 7,000 images) and most of my images are referenced so my Aperture Library is only about 15GB. I've even had SuperDuper and Aperture 3 running at the same time with out a problem. It's very unlikely that SuperDuper could effect Aperture.
I did the following prior to conversion. First I made sure I had a Time Machine backup and a SuperDuper backup of my Photo volume. Using Aperture 2 I deleted all previews and then rebuilt them. I rebuilt the Aperture 2 data base and then did a consistency check. Next using the Finder I copied the Aperture 2 library to another volume but left all the referenced files in place. Finally I started Aperture 3 and pointed it at the copied library. The conversion took a few hours and everything has been good. After a day I renamed the original Aperture 2 library and using the finder copied the Aperture 3 library back to where I wanted it.
It's all running great.

SuperDuper kills only Crucial M4 SSDs or all the brands?

Today I have bought a Crucial M4 SSD 2,5 512GB to replace my MacBook Pro HD. I connect it with usb to sata cable to my Mac, format it and begin copying the data using SuperDuper. 5 minuts later I get an error, the drive is ejected and from that moment it has been impossible to mount, erase or repair.
Disk Utility shows the drive with the partition name blurred. If I click mount I get the "run first aid" dialog. First aid says the drive seems OK. If I try to format it another error and DiskWarrior reports a hardware failure. Searching the discussions I find it seems SuperDuper damages the lookup table or something similar. As it was not exactly my idea of quality paying as I paid 1 euro per Gyg, I have returned the SSD and got a refund. The question now is: are all the SSD drives so fragile or partially incompatible or there's one that I can use just exactly like a mechanical hard drive???

Just to clarify the subject: SuperDuper KILLS NOTHING. I bought a second identical Crucial M4 512GB and I got same identical behaviour: ten minutes installing MacOS from DVD then death, unrecoverable, not recognized as a hard drive nor nothing attached to the usb bus...
I needed a PC to revive the drive and to upgrade the firmware. After that it works like a charm, first in an external drive for testing and now inside my 2008 MacBook Pro.
So if you are looking for an ssd drive and googling you end reading this, first of all UPGRADE THE SSD FIRMWARE, and then don't forget to enable TRIM using one of the Trimenabler apps you can get on the internet.
Hope this helps somebody.

CCC vs SuperDuper on MacBook Pro

I haven't been an OS X user long enough to have developed preferences for imaging software. I used CCC on my iBooks and have been using it on my MBP until today. Today I found the universal binary for SuperDuper and decided to try it to clone my MBP harddrive. CCC remains Rosetta translated while SuperDuper is now UB. I expected SD to be faster; it wasn't. In fact, SuperDuper took twice as long to clone my MBP HD as the Rosetta translated CCC. Despite that, I was impressed by the range of options available in the paid version of SuperDuper. The "free versions" are pretty equivalent in functionality. Are there any of you out there that have real world experience with both of these programs to help me decide which one, in the end, will come through consistently and reliably when I need it? If speed were the only issue, I'd stick with CCC, but with the possibility of incremental clones, SD seems like a good possibility.
What thinketh you from your own personal experiences.
P.S. the price difference is immaterial to me.

SuperDuper is very well supported and does incremental imaging which is a huge time saver and I believe is unique among Macintosh imaging programs. I have been using it for almost 2 years as I needed to find a very reliable imaging program as I was using Ghost and then Acronis on the PC. It is the sole program that I found that is feature complete with Ghost and Acronis TrueImage. It also does scheduled imaging. The product gets upgraded regularly and the developer is very responsive. They also have an online forum that is attended by the developer. It has saved my butt on more than one occasion. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
HTH,
Steve

How do I find and read mail messages on my SuperDuper backup?

I have a new mbp and did not migrate anything from old mbp. I made a SuperDuper backup of old computer so I have data I may need. How do I find my mailboxes and be able to read messages that I need on my my backup. I know I could export mailboxes but that's a lot of work up front. If I can just get to a message when needed on my backup that would be great. Thanks.

Another question - my backup is Lion and new mbp is Mountain Lion - will that be a problem?
Regarding what? Did you try starting from your backup?

Reverting to 10.5.6: Do I need to restore BOTH superduper drives (OS+user)?

Hi:
My iMac has an external 1GB drive with my user account home directory.
I made a superduper backup of both my iMac internal drive and the external user data before upgrading to 10.5.7 a few days back.
Since 10.5.7 is so lousy (so many things are just slow), I will revert to 10.5.6 by using those superduper backups.
Do I need to restore both (i.e. internal OS drive and external user data drive), or is restoring just the iMac internal drive enough?
My guess is I need both (since there is a Library folder in my external home drive), but I'd like to be sure to prevent needless work.
BTW - I forget the shortcut key to press to get the option of which disk to boot from (when I have the superduper backup attached): does anyone remember?
Regards, Strathglass.
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Update:
I was premature in my last post: the slow Mac problem returned.
However in searching around I found this macrumors forum thread:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=504992
It gave me the idea (since I was getting the -10810 error) to do a "ps -ef" from a terminal: sure enough I had dozens & dozens of the same process running.
The culprit? Some remnant of Intego Virus Barrier (free version) that I had removed, but apparently not fully. I found the remaining remnants and deleted them and everything is fine again and I am still at 10.5.7.
So if you have the -10810 error on your Leopard (or other I suppose) Mac, do a "ps -ef" and see if it is something obvious like in my case!
Regards, Strathglass
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06 Macbook Pro Coreduo - New Macbook Pro, Superduper Question

I sold my old macbook pro this weekend. It was from March just after they released the first intel machines and before I sold it I used superduper to clone the internal drive to an external. I had planned to just plug the external into my new macbook pro 2.4 boot from the external and copy the old system back to the internal drive. The old one had the retail box version of Leopard. I just want to make sure that there is no reason I can't do that. I was a little concerned that perhaps something in the chip architecture meant that I couldn't just use the old drive image. I think I am fine but if anyone can confirm, it would make me feel better.

There is a reason not to do that - installations of the OS are build-specific. You probably won't do harm, but you'll be missing features (e.g. options for controlling the multitouch trackpad, which recognizes up to four fingers for different gestures on the new MBP).
Instead, I'd recommend using Migration Assistant to move your files from the external drive to the mew MBP - you'll be given that option by the Setup Assistant, and it will work well in your case (it's a bad idea to Migrate a PPC machine to an Intel machine, a not-great-but-still-probably-ok option to Migrate a Tiger intel machine to a Leopard Intel machine, but fine to Migrate Intel+Leopard to newer-Intel+Leopard). Migration Assistant will pull all your apps, files, music, settings, etc., over from the backup clone to the new machine.

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