Super Duper Mess

I bought a copy of Super Duper (the back up utility) and after I ran it(backed up to a La Cie HD) my iMac G5 (10.4) started giving me fits- everything was slow and locking up like crazy. I unhooked the external hard drive, trashed Super Duper and everything made nice again. What in the world is going on??

The original poster may want to consider checking the makers of his drives for driver updates.
Any SuperDuper questions should be addressed on their forums.
Just to clarify, a clone is a exact duplicate of a drive usually done on a timetable set by the user using software. It offers hardware and software corruption protection.
A mirror is a exact duplicate of a drive as well, but it done using either Disk Utility or other RAID software/hardware and any data is written to both drives instantly, offering only hardware protection. A mirror is good for vital one time data captures, like if ET called. It doesn't make a good method to backup a boot drive as you loose the benefit of time.
I don't particuarly like SuperDuper, the first version with it's registration traps and "phoning home" (taking my admin password?) didn't install a whole lot of confidence in me. I didn't like the interface either.
I switched to Deja Vu instead and found the System Preference Pane approach more to my liking. It runs so seemlessly in the background even over a network, auto-cloning and auto backups.
If your hard on the dollars, donationware Carbon Copy Cloner is a excellent "one trick pony" choice and their forums are most helpful.
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  • Super Duper Damages Shared Components

    After losing a hard drive on my 1.67 gh Pbook w 2 gigs ram, running 10.4.11 I'm using Super Duper to back-up the drive. I've created a bootable back-up on a FW800 external drive. Everytime I use Super Duper to back-up the drive, it damages Photoshop CS3 which won't launch. I have to re-install and it tells me it's currently repairing shared components. No other apps have problems after a backup, and I don't have any Pshop problem until I backup. I tried using Carbon Copy Cloner and got the same results, so it doesn't appear to be the backup app. The thing that's most confusing to me is why Pshop would be messed up on the laptop's HD, which was being duped?
    Any ideas?

    I've been using Superduper to clone my main drive to do testing and have had absolutely no problems with SD at all. And I've been doing this all summer. so its not the software.

  • Can i reconnect a "super duper" clone to "time machine" as original?

    hi there.
    i've recently upgraded the hard drive on my mbp 17, using super duper for cloning my stuff onto the new hd.
    only later i've discovered that using the same hd name doesn't mean time machine recognizes it as the same, root hd.
    i already slap myself endlessly for this naive mistake, as now i can only back my hd as another hd, multiplying the space and duration the backup requires.. still didn't let it go through.
    i have no real experience using the terminal, and since i didn't find any result online relating exactly to my situation, i can't readily try to perform any suggestion i've already found, for the risk of damaging something permanently.
    more info - leopard; time machine hd is accessible, as is the backed up info on it when reached through time machine.
    i only need a solution for making the new hard drive be accepted by time machine as the old one.
    thanx in advance,
    yaneev

    thx for the answer, i've actually read that article before.
    no, i didn't start a new BU sequence, as i'm totally insecure even opening terminal.
    by reformatting the HD i would lose months of mail backups etc.
    i did take care of periodically manual BUs of important stuff,
    so now i guess i just dont get the eventual purpose of TM..
    sometimes it feels sad to be lost somewhere between being a very advanced mac user and being just a newbie without a clue of how to mess things up...
    Message was edited by: yaneev

  • Time Machine or Super Duper??

    I have been using Super Duper successfully under Tiger with an external Seagate USB Drive. Now that I have Snow Leopard... I was wondering about Time Machine. I only want to use it if it does something substantially better than Super Duper- outperforms in some way shape or form- why mess with a good thing?
    Message was edited by: Micah Eavenson

    Ditto what Mr. Boyd says, adding "every hour."
    Time Machine gives you a *much, much* better chance of recovering something you changed or deleted in error (Save instead of Save As, for example), or somehow got corrupted.
    Plus the ability to put your entire system back the way it was at the time of any prior backup.
    It's no doubt more than you want, but here's a comparison:
    There are three basic types of backup applications: Bootable Clone, Archive, and Time Machine.
    This is a general explanation and comparison. Many variations exist, of course, and some combine features of others.
    |
    _*BOOTABLE "CLONE"*_
    These make a complete, "bootable" copy of your entire system on an external disk/partition, a second internal disk/partition, or a partition of your internal disk.
    Advantages
    When your internal HD fails, you can boot and run from the clone immediately. Your Mac may run a bit slower, but it will run, and contain everything that was on your internal HD at the time the clone was made or last updated.
    You can test whether it will run, just by booting-up from it (but of course you can't be positive that everything is ok without actually running everything).
    If it's on an external drive, you can easily take it off-site.
    Disadvantages
    Making an entire clone takes quite a while. Most of the cloning apps have an update feature, but even that takes quite a while, as they must examine everything on your system to see what's changed and needs to be backed-up. Since this takes lots of time and CPU, it's usually not practical to do this more than once or twice a day.
    Normally, it only contains a copy of what was on your internal HD when the clone was made or last updated.
    Some do have a feature that allows it to retain the previous copy of items that have been changed or deleted, in the fashion of an archive, but of course that has the same disadvantages as an archive.
    |
    _*TRADITIONAL "ARCHIVE" BACKUPS*_
    These copy specific files and folders, or your entire system. With many, the first backup is a full copy of everything; subsequently, they're "incremental," copying only what's changed.
    Most of these will copy to an external disk or network locations; some to CDs/DVDs, or even tape.
    Advantages
    They're usually fairly simple and reliable. If the increments are on separate media, they can be taken off-site easily.
    Disadvantages
    Most have to examine everything to determine what's changed and needs to be backed-up. This takes considerable time and lots of CPU. If an entire system is being backed-up, it's usually not practical to do this more than once, or perhaps twice, a day.
    Restoring an individual item means you have to find the media and/or file it's on. You may have to dig through many incremental backups to find what you're looking for.
    Restoring an entire system (or large folder) usually means you have to restore the most recent Full backup, then each of the increments, in the proper order. This can get very tedious and error-prone.
    You have to manage the backups yourself. If they're on an external disk, sooner or later it will get full, and you have to do something, like figure out what to delete. If they're on removable media, you have to store them somewhere appropriate and keep track of them.
    |
    _*TIME MACHINE*_
    Advantages
    Similar to an archive, TM keeps copies of everything currently on your system, plus changed/deleted items, on an external disk or Time Capsule.
    Like many Archive apps, it first copies everything on your system, then does incremental backups of additions and changes. But TM's magic is, each backup appears to be a full one: a complete copy of everything on your system at the time of the backup.
    It uses an internal OSX log of what's changed to quickly determine what to copy, so most users can let it do it's hourly incremental backups without much effect on system performance. This means you have a much better chance to recover an item that was changed or deleted in error, or corrupted.
    Recovery of individual items is quite easy, via the TM interface. You don't have to find and mount media, or dig through many files to find what you're looking for.
    You can also recover your entire system to the exact state it was in at the time of any backup, even it that's a previous version of OSX.
    TM manages it's space for you, automatically. When your backup disk gets near full, TM will delete your oldest backup(s) to make room for new ones. But it will never delete it's copy of anything that's still on your internal HD, or was there at the time of any remaining backup. So all that's actually deleted are copies of items that were changed or deleted long ago.
    Disadvantages
    It's not bootable. If your internal HD fails, you can't boot directly from your TM backups. You must restore them, either to your repaired/replaced internal HD or an external disk. This is a fairly simple, but of course lengthy, procedure.
    TM doesn't keep it's copies of changed/deleted items forever, and you're usually not notified when it deletes them.
    It is fairly complex, and somewhat new, so may be a bit less reliable than some others.
    |
    RECOMMENDATION
    For most non-professional users, TM is simple, workable, and maintenance-free. But it does have it's disadvantages.
    That's why many folks use both Time Machine and a bootable clone, to have two, independent backups, with the advantages of both. If one fails, the other remains. If there's room, these can be in separate partitions of the same external drive, but it's a bit safer to have them on separate drives.
    |
    _*OFF-SITE BACKUPS*_
    As great as external drives are, they may not protect you from fire, flood, theft, or direct lightning strike on your power lines. So it's an excellent idea to get something off-site, to your safe deposit box, workplace, relative's house, etc.
    There are many ways to do that, depending on how much data you have, how often it changes, how valuable it is, and your level of paranoia.
    One of the the best strategies is to follow the above recommendation, but with a pair of portable externals, each 4 or more times the size of your data. Each has one partition the same size as your internal HD for a "bootable clone" and another with the remainder for TM.
    Use one drive for a week or so, then take it off-site and swap with the other. You do have to tell TM when you swap drives, via TM Preferences > Change Disk; and you shouldn't go more than about 10 days between swaps.
    There are other options, instead of the dual drives, or in addition to them. Your off-site backups don't necessarily have to be full backups, but can be just copies of critical information.
    If you have a MobileMe account, you can use Apple's Backup app to get relatively-small amounts of data (such as Address book, preferences, settings, etc.) off to iDisk daily. If not, you can use a 3rd-party service such as Mozy.
    You can also copy data to CDs or DVDs and take them off-site. Re-copy them every year or two, as their longevity is questionable.
    Backup strategies are not a "One Size Fits All" sort of thing. What's best varies by situation and preference.
    Just as an example, I use TM plus a CarbonCopyCloner clone (updated daily, while I'm snoozing) locally, plus small daily Backups to iDisk, plus some other things to DVD/RWs in my safe deposit box. Probably overkill, but as many of us have learned over the years, backups are one area where +Paranoia is Prudent!+

  • How do I restore a new Hard drive from Super Duper clone ?

    The Hard Drive in my 2010 iMac died and was replaced with a new one. Thankfully I have a clone made with Super Duper of the old drive. Do I just clone back on to the new internal drive ? The new drive, installed by Apple has OS10.6.8 installed on it now (by Apple ), which is the OS on the clone. Do I need to completely wipe the drive before restoring with my clone ? All that's on the new drive is the OS. Don't want to make any mistakes here.....

    1. Boot from your install DVD or Bootable Clone and open Disk Utility.
    2. Highlight the new HD in the list of drives and select the Partition tab.
    3. Under Volume Scheme select 1 Partition and click on the Options... button.
    4. Select GUID Partition Table in the drop down window and click OK.
    5. Set the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and click the Apply button.
    6. Once thats done then you can do a clean Install, restore from TM or the Bootable Clone.

  • I just put a solid state hard drive in my mac book pro and used super duper to copy the hard drive and move the data over to thew new ssd, but most of my music isn't in iTunes when I turned it on? How do I get my music to show up in my new drive?

    I just put a solid state hard drive in my mac book pro and used super duper to copy the hard drive and move the data over to thew new ssd, but most of my music isn't in iTunes when I turned it on? How do I get my music to show up in my new drive?

    Many thanks lllaass,
    The Touch Copy third party software for PC's is the way to go it seems and although the demo is free, if you have over 100 songs then it costs £15 to buy the software which seems not a lot to pay for peace of mind. and restoring your iTunes library back to how it was.
    Cheers
    http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php?gclid=CODH8dK46bsCFUbKtAod8 VcAQg

  • Super Duper help on unresponsive Macbook

    Hello, I've already posted before and nobody has responded. Let me ask one of the questions I could really use answered and hopefully people can help. So I am having a major HD issue and disk utility (booting from the install disk, can't even get past grey screen with apple logo and spinning wheel) says I have a verify or repair failure: Invalid Node structure. I have tried PRAM/NVRAM reset, Verbose, and safe mode, to no avail. I just would like to know if this Super Duper HD copying program will allow me to make a copy of my HD and save the info, then I'll just whip the disk and start new. I am having a hard time understanding how it can work unless your computer is working itself, which mine is not. How can I download the program if I can't even use my computer? How can I load it up on my computer if it does't even work? All I want to do is get a copy of my HD's contents or even specific files onto my backup drive, but I can't figure it out. I've already tried Restore on Disk Utility from the install disk, but has varying levels of not working. Sometimes my Macintosh HD is greyed out and won't even let me add it to the boxes on the right to make a copy, other times it does, but then won't let me add the destination drive (my backup drive). This whole thing is just killing me. I just got a backup drive for a christmas present and was going to backup everything, but then my Macbook went on the fritz. All I want to do is make a backup of my HD anyway I can. After that, I don't care, but I need my stuff. Any help would be appreciated in advance, thank you.
    Here is the link to the original question that has 0 replies if you need more background.
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4667043

    I have read these posts and have a comment. If your computer is running slower than it used to and you are running the same apps as you used to and your hard drive is NOT over 90% full then the problem is NOT being caused by having too little RAM. The RAM does not shrink. If all things are the same but it is now running slower then there is some other reason than lack of RAM. RAM is expensive enough that it is a real shame to buy more if it has nothing to do with the underlying performance problem.
    Clean caches with Onyx. Do all the other maintenance with Onyx. Run PreferentialTreatment. Reset PRAM. Boot from your external hard drive that you have cloned a copy of your main drive onto. You do have a clone of the main drive don't you?
    A cloned copy of your hard drive is invaluable for trouble shooting and the day may very likely come that you will be extremely grateful that you spent the dollars for one. It is so easy to clone your hard drive and then to clone the external back to the internal if need be. Everything will be just how you left it. Far simpler and more effective than making a copy of your User folder and then reinstalling the OS from the DVD. The later can take many hours and much work to get things the way you had them. Cloning is virtually effortless.

  • .trash and super duper

    This will be confusing but I will appreciate any advice. The apple genius was not sure he knew the answer so maybe someone here knows what I should do.
    I'm not sure it matters how this happened but it started with a failing hard drive and superduper. It's a long story but I ended up with 152 gb of files (all user files, all photos) duplicated on my external drive. I didn't realize this for awhile but when I did, I put all all the duplicates in the trash. Even though .trash files are hidden, they take up space on my external drive plus on my back up drive. I am afraid to empty the trash because I don't understand where the files really are or where the trash is since the only place I see a trash can is in the dock, not on my external drives. I use super duper to clone my mac hd as well as my external drive. I discovered what had happened when I checked the activity monitor and saw that my drives had suddenly lost all that space. Since I can't easily undo emptying the trash and can't experiment with one file, I am really afraid that I can create havoc with the system. Super Duper told me it's a bad idea to keep a lot of files in the trash. I sense that I just don't know enough about this to decide what to do. any help much appreciated.
    Thanks.

    you can see the hidden trash files. They began with a .Trash
    slotless is an external flash drive.
    /Volumes/Spotless/.Trash
    The user Mac has a hidden trash folder in the home folder.
    /Users/mac/.Trash
    Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
    #Show hidden files. All file icons come out dimmed.
    defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
    killall Finder
    #Back to normal. Icon are bright. Hidden files are hidden.
    defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
    killall Finder

  • Time Machine in addition to Super Duper

    My previous backup external drive died and I just got a replacement. I have always used Super Duper (which is great) to back up my computers so that I have a bootable backup. The question is---does it make any sense to partition the drive so that there is one partition for Super Duper and a second for Time Machine? What benefit would Time Machine add?
    Thanks

    Keep in mind that TimeMachine backs up changes every hour, keeps daily backups for a month and weekly backups thereafter. At work my backup set is about 125GB and I began backing up to the current TM drive in August. The TM backup is now 244GB. Prior to upgrading to 10.6 my home computer's TM backup was nearly 3 times the size of the backup set. To me, the value of TM is the redundancy and its value is diminished when older backups have to be erased to make room for a new backup set. For this reason I recommend that a TM drive be no less than twice the size of the backup set and closer to three times the size. This is in addition to the SD! clone I keep.
    If your external drive is large enough then yes, it is fine to partition it. If it isn't, use one method or the other and/or purchase a second backup drive. Also, keep in mind that SD! can be set to perform scheduled backups and it can also keep archives (copies of files that were changed since the last backup).

  • Super duper or other clone app?

    I want to add a clone app so that I can have an extra layer of backup peace of mind.
    I've heard of Super Duper but want to know if there are others I should consider. I want ease of use, reliability, etc.
    Suggestions?

    Possibly (semantics).....but (sorry) I must still disagree (using startup manager will still boot into the recovery partition because TM is not bootable):
    it will boot the MBP to the 4 option menu
    that is the recovery partition, therefore you are booting into the recovery partition. TM will be just one of the options listed in the Utilities screen..
    Hopefully this will help:
    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314
    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204417
    and this (scroll down to "restore complete contents....":
    http://www.imore.com/how-set-and-restore-time-machine-backup
    If you can find anything that confirms that Time Machine is bootable (on its own - without using recovery), I'll gladly add that to my "having learned something new today" list, but if it actually was, then the need for CCC or SuperDuper would dwindle rather quickly, wouldn't it.

  • Backing Up - Super Duper vs DU Restore

    This question may seem pathetic - any answer would be appreciated.
    Is there any difference in the end result of using DU Restore as a backup method as opposed to Super Duper? They both create bootable backups,right?
    Thanks in advance, thanks in arrears and all the best for 2007.
    Karina

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  • G4 MDD Cloning with Super Duper

    G4 MDD Cloning with Super Duper
    My G4: G4 MDD Single 1.25 Dual Boot. Running OS 10.3.9
    I purchased a new hard drive to replace my old 80 GB drive. Also, purchased a second new drive to use as a scratch disk. After cloning to the first new drive that I'll use for the boot drive, I will be taking my 80 GB drive out and putting it in a firewire case that I purchased, for backups.
    I never did this before and have some questions.
    I'm going to leave my 80 GB drive in my G4 while doing the clone. Can I run Super Duper that is on my 80 GB drive? Or do I have to put Super Duper on a Boot CD or just a Data CD to run Super Duper?
    To Clone my 80 GB to my new 640 GB for new boot drive, how do I do this? Do I use a Full Backup, is that the procedure?
    Can you tell me how I go about doing this?
    Another question I have about partitioning. I was told I could use Disk Utility that is on my 80 GB drive, that I don't have to use the boot CD to do this. Is that correct?
    Was told I use Disk Utility to first Partition my 2 new drives, then Format them both Journeled. Is that the way to go for formatting and partitioning my new drives? Then I would do the cloning with Super Duper.
    Another question: I run Photoshop CS2, Popcorn, Toast, and VisualHub. I will only wind up having 2 new Hard Drives in my G4. And will be taking the 80 GB drive out to use as a back up drive, after cloning.
    What is the best way to partition my new boot drive and new second drive for a scratch drive?
    I figured the boot drive would be first partition for my OS and second partition for my data/files.
    On my second drive, I would use a first partition for CS2 Scratch and a second partition for Popcorn, Toast, etc. Because I know the scratch for CS2 is random and the scratch for the others are more sequential.
    Would this be a good scenario for partitioning my 2 drives? Because I will only be using 2 hard drives in my computer.
    Also, what partition Sizes should I make? My Boot drive will be a 640 GB drive and my Scratch drive is a 320 GB drive.
    I'm new to this and would really appreciate some advise! thank You.

    hello,
    I've just used super duper for the first time a week ago to back-up before formatting my G4 MDD.
    It works perfect BUT I'd recommand you use the version for sale (not the free/trial one) as it allows you to access more options such as creating image disks.
    It's around 25$ or someting like that...
    I'd also recommand you to read the "read me first" pdf file that goes with it, it's very useful and clear.
    You have to install super duper on your computer and run it from there to back-up on the remote HD. You can either create a bootable version (if your external HD is a firewire one, and if it is HFS formated) or a disk image (I used this option since you have to erase the whole external disk to create a bootable back-up and I didn't want to do that).
    Concerning partitioning, check it, but I think you have to run disk utility from the bootable apple CD to create a partition (disk utility won't partition the disk on which the system is running).
    good luck

  • Time Machine or External Using Super Duper

    Apple is going to change the HD on my computer. I know little about Time Machine but I have been backing up my HD using Super Duper and a LaCie external HD. I think it's working out so far. That's what I have done before replacing the HD. So, when the new HD is installed, I can start up using the external and transfer files, i.e., mail, iTunes, Safari, Firefox etc. from the Application file on the external to the Application file on the computer with the new HD without any change in content. Any advantage using Time Machine over the way I intend to do it which should work. Any preferences or none?
    I have already posted in a different Topic but on this sight regarding another aspect of this operation.

    I generally can get Time Machine to work for a while. It takes way more effort to get it working and to keep it working than you'd expect for a Mac.
    The most recent event was when I mounted my new 500 GB Hitachi drive in a new Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini, connected with Firewire 800 to my Mac Mini Server. I formatted the drive, using the 7-pass erase in Disk Utility, with no errors. I used disk utility to verify the file system on the drive before I started using it with Time Machine.
    I configure Time Machine to use that new drive, and it starts up, but pukes fairly quickly. I Googled the error messages, and found lots of other people running into the same error.
    First off, the disk would not unmount. Had to force unmount it.
    Used Disk Utility to Repair the file system. It encountered no errors. So, then I used Disk Warrior to rebuild the directory structure on the disk. It found some things that it corrected. Since then, Time Machine has been working on that disk without further errors (overnight).
    How many Apple customers are going to want to deal with force unmounts, running disk utility and disk warrior to tickle Time Machine back into working?
    These are my log entries from the most recent Time Machine errors:
    Dec 30 09:42:13 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Starting standard backup
    Dec 30 09:42:13 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdbDec 30 09:42:13 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Detected system migration from:
    /Volumes/Christopher-J-Shakers-Mac.localDec 30 09:42:17 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Backup content size: 406.7 GB excluded items size: 34.0 GB for volume MacMini
    Dec 30 09:42:17 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 447.22 GB requested (including padding), 465.02 GB availableDec 30 09:42:17 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Waiting for index to be ready (
    101)Dec 30 09:42:17 MacMini mds[42]: (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /Volumes
    /Backups/Backups.backupdbDec 30 09:42:30 MacMini ntpd[33]: time reset -0.559108 sDec 30 09:42:54 MacMini JollysFastVNC[898]: (00599870.0592)-[NetworkConnection disconnect] could not shut down writehandleDec 30 09:43:01 MacMini login[1339]: DEAD_PROCESS: 1339 ttys001
    Dec 30 09:58:09 MacMini ntpd[33]: time reset -0.483469 s
    Dec 30 10:00:34 MacMini kernel[0]: Dec 30 10:00:45: --- last message repeated 3 times ---Dec 30 10:00:45 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DTMessageQueueing.framework/Versions/A/DTM essageQueueing to /Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdb/SNOWSERVER/2010-12-30-094033.
    inProgress/02385079-1749-4E5A-BC4F-93367E30B581/MacMini/Developer/Library/Privat
    eFrameworks/DTMessageQueueing.framework/Versions/ADec 30 10:00:45 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Stopping backup.Dec 30 10:00:45 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DTMessageQueueing.framework/Versions/A/DTM essageQueueing to /Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdb/SNOWSERVER/2010-12-30-09403
    3.inProgress/02385079-1749-4E5A-BC4F-93367E30B581/MacMini/Developer/Library/Priv ateFrameworks/DTMessageQueueing.framework/Versions/A
    Dec 30 10:00:45 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Copied 13388 files (10.5 GB) fr
    om volume MacMini.Dec 30 10:00:45 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Copy stage failed with error:11Dec 30 10:00:46 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:co
    m.apple.backupd.ModelID path:/Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdb/SNOWSERVER size:1
    0Dec 30 10:00:51 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Backup failed with error: 11Dec 30 10:06:19 MacMini mds[42]: (/Volumes/Backups/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/A3D115A8-4546-4A3B-B36E-59440 4EEA098)(Error) IndexCI in ci_ftruncate:ftruncat
    e(34 /Volumes/Backups/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/A3D115A8-4546-4A3B-B36E-594404 EEA098/live.0.indexDirectory, 16448) error:22Dec 30 10:06:19 MacMini mds[42]: (/Volumes/Backups/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stor
    es/A3D115A8-4546-4A3B-B36E-594404EEA098)(Error) IndexCI in expandMap:ftruncate err: 22
    Here is another one:
    Dec 30 10:06:20 MacMini mds[42]: (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdb
    Dec 30 10:14:12 MacMini ntpd[33]: time reset -0.496024 s
    Dec 30 10:29:48 MacMini ntpd[33]: time reset -0.481983 s
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    Dec 30 10:42:31 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdb
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