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hanging on "updating prebinding"?

strudel — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:52:25 GMT

Hi,

I was just doing a backup to new drive for the first time, and the backup seemed to hang on "updating prebinding." I forced SD to close, so I'm not sure about the state of my backup -- there's no log for that backup.

What should I do to prevent this in the future? What caused the problem? Any light you can shed?

I'm running Superduper 2.6.4 and Mac OS 10.7.3

Thanks in advance!

strudel

Sparseimage to Sparsebundle

nosirrah — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:46:27 GMT

I am using a sparseimage for backup, and have just read that for later versions of OS X it is better to use sparsebundle.
Is there an easy way to copy my current s-image to a s-bundle, or will it require a whole new restore from scratch?

SuperDuper! backup doesn't recognize Google Drive

Felix — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:20:49 GMT

I've noticed that when I boot up on my SuperDuper! back-up (an external drive), my Google Drive folder isn't recognized. Even when I go through the "locate drive" steps, it still isn't recognized.

Is there a workaround other than deleting the folder in the Google "cloud" and then uploading the entire folder again from the folder on my desktop Mac? It's not too much of a problem now when I only have about 4GB of files in the Google cloud but I'm considering purchasing extra cloud storage and wouldn't want to waste the time uploading mega-GBs of Google Drive files if I need to boot and work from the SuperDuper! external drive clone.

Is this backup speed too slow?

Charles218 — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:53:19 GMT

I have been doing regular smart updates of my Time Machine disc but for the past couple of weeks the updates have taken much longer then before. Are these numbers normal?

After 7 hours, 4.4 million of 5.9 million files evaluated, 0 files copied.
Effective copy speed 25.76 MiB/s.
264 GB evaluated, 656.92 already up to date, 0 MiB copied.

The complete update is taking about 10 hours, where it used to complete in about 6 hours.

Thanks for any input on this!!!
Charles

Recommend 250GB backup drive?

luomat — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:38:27 GMT

I am looking for a 250 GB drive to use to backup my MacBook Air.

Actually two.

(Maybe three. Ideally three, right? One at home, one at the office, one in my laptop bag?)

Anyway, let's say at least one at home and one in my laptop bag.

The one at home can be big as needed, I'll run it at night when I'm asleep.

The one in my laptop bag needs to be as small as possible but still durable.

Recommendations?

New Log Errors

Rebel — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:11:58 GMT

Historically when I backup I have no errors (nothing in red), although I don't check the log often.

I have been getting errors lately when I forget to disable anti-virus first (which I recently installed).
But today I checked the log, and found a bunch of repeated errors, and Google didn't help, neither did a forum search. :confused:

This is only a few of them:
06:33:02 AM | Error | LOGGED EXCEPTION: NSAccessibilityException, reason: "AXSubrole" attribute unsupported by:
Frame = {{0.00, 16.00}, {1903.00, 1536.00}}, Bounds = {{0.00, 0.00}, {1903.00, 1536.00}}
Horizontally resizable: NO, Vertically resizable: YES
MinSize = {1903.00, 1107.00}, MaxSize = {1918.00, 10000000.00}
, userInfo: {
NSAccessibilityErrorCodeExceptionInfo = -25205;
}
| 06:33:02 AM | Error | LOGGED EXCEPTION: NSAccessibilityException, reason: "AXParent" attribute unsupported by: , userInfo: {
NSAccessibilityErrorCodeExceptionInfo = -25205;
}
| 06:33:06 AM | Error | LOGGED EXCEPTION: NSAccessibilityException, reason: "AXSubrole" attribute unsupported by:
Frame = {{0.00, 16.00}, {1903.00, 1656.00}}, Bounds = {{0.00, 0.00}, {1903.00, 1656.00}}
Horizontally resizable: NO, Vertically resizable: YES
MinSize = {1903.00, 1107.00}, MaxSize = {1918.00, 10000000.00}
, userInfo: {
NSAccessibilityErrorCodeExceptionInfo = -25205;
}
| 06:33:07 AM | Error | LOGGED EXCEPTION: NSAccessibilityException, reason: "AXParent" attribute unsupported by: , userInfo: {
NSAccessibilityErrorCodeExceptionInfo = -25205;
}
| 06:33:10 AM | Error | LOGGED EXCEPTION: NSAccessibilityException, reason: "AXSubrole" attribute unsupported by:
Frame = {{0.00, 16.00}, {1903.00, 1776.00}}, Bounds = {{0.00, 0.00}, {1903.00, 1776.00}}
Horizontally resizable: NO, Vertically resizable: YES
MinSize = {1903.00, 1107.00}, MaxSize = {1918.00, 10000000.00}
, userInfo: {
NSAccessibilityErrorCodeExceptionInfo = -25205;
}
| 06:33:10 AM | Error | LOGGED EXCEPTION: NSAccessibilityException, reason: "AXParent" attribute unsupported by: , userInfo: {
NSAccessibilityErrorCodeExceptionInfo = -25205;
}
| 06:33:12 AM | Error | LOGGED EXCEPTION: NSAccessibilityException, reason: "AXSubrole" attribute unsupported by:
Frame = {{0.00, 16.00}, {1903.00, 1896.00}}, Bounds = {{0.00, 0.00}, {1903.00, 1896.00}}
Horizontally resizable: NO, Vertically resizable: YES
MinSize = {1903.00, 1107.00}, MaxSize = {1918.00, 10000000.00}
, userInfo: {
NSAccessibilityErrorCodeExceptionInfo = -25205;
}
| 06:33:12 AM | Error | LOGGED EXCEPTION: NSAccessibilityException, reason: "AXParent" attribute unsupported by: , userInfo: {
NSAccessibilityErrorCodeExceptionInfo = -25205;

I find it EXTREMELY annoying that it's nearly impossible to copy specific lines from the log, because when you click anywhere in it, it autmatically scrolls back to the top, making it nearly impossible to copy anything that's not on the first page. This forces you to copy the entire page, then go edit it to get what only what you really want. :mad:

Parameters to Run shell script after copy complete

bammi — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:42:10 GMT

The SD! docs (page 43) document the 6 parameters that are passed to pre/post copy shell scripts (advanced options). Unfortunately, SD! does not seem to pass in the exit status of the SD! script that just ran prior to the post copy shell script. It would be really nice to have the status code. I email myself in the post copy script, it would be really nice to know if there were any problems.

thanks
jbammi

Restore stopped with error. Bad hard drive? Restore or new drive?

GadgetFan — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:42:17 GMT

My Macintosh HD failed or was scrambled (not sure which). Wouldn't boot, eventually said Mac OS X could not repair. Said files can be copied but partition cannot be written to; copy files and reformat as soon as possible. Disk Utility gave similar results. It would erase, but couldn't do anything else.

After ensuring I had backups, and dragging my home folder to a spare drive for good measure, I reformatted Macintosh HD as MacOS Extended (Journaled) and set SD to Copy from the backup to Macintosh HD.

The restore failed with the log below. The crucial, final two entires being:
| 07:35:40 PM | Info | /Backups.backupdb
| 09:26:54 PM | Error | SDCopy: Attempt to create hard link on /Volumes/Macintosh HD but file system format does not support hard links. Please enable HFS+ Journaling with Disk Utility and try again.\n

This says to me two things:

1. Duh. It's trying to restore the TimeMachine backup I had on the same drive as my SD backup, and I should have excluded that. {Q:What's the correct way to exclude that?}

2. Why isn't the partition Journaled when that is what I set up yesterday? Is there something wrong with the drive? (BTW I was puzzled yesterday just before using Disk Utility to erase the old Macintosh HD partition and re-format that it was not Journaled. It let me select Journaled as the option, but didn't do it, and I didn't think to check.) {Q - Is my drive borked in some way that prevents Journaling?}

Additional fact: there is a separate Bootcamp partition, which I have attempted to image with WinClone. My backup drive is Journaled.

Much thanks, dnanian, for any advice!!!

| 06:59:50 PM | Info | SuperDuper!, 2.6.4 (89), path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app, Mac OS 10.6.8 build 10K549 (i386)
| 06:59:50 PM | Info | Started on Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM
| 06:59:50 PM | Info | Source Volume: Daily, mount: /, device: /dev/disk1s2, media: Mercury Elite Pro, interconnect: External FireWire, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: 10.6.8 (10K549), capacity: 660.00 GB, used: 315.34 GB, directories: 442699, files: 2183974, ejectable: YES, ACLs: Enabled
| 06:59:50 PM | Info | Target Volume: Macintosh HD, mount: /Volumes/Macintosh HD, device: /dev/disk0s2, media: ST31000342ASQ, interconnect: Internal SATA, file system: "HFS+", OS: N/A, capacity: 838.46 GB, used: 0.57 GB, directories: 9, files: 41, ejectable: NO, ACLs: Enabled
| 06:59:50 PM | Info | Copy Mode : Smart Update
| 06:59:50 PM | Info | Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
| 06:59:50 PM | Info | Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | PHASE: 1. Prepare to Copy Files
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing Daily
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying the integrity of volinfo.database
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | volinfo.database OK
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Daily
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Daily
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | Permissions on '/' are enabled.
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Repairing permissions on Daily
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Repairing permissions on Daily
| 06:59:51 PM | Info | Started verify/repair permissions on disk1s2 Daily
| 07:00:30 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Remote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/Italian.lproj/UIAgent.nib", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are -rw-r--r--
| 07:00:30 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Remote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/Italian.lproj/UIAgent.nib"
| 07:00:30 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Support/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/Italian.lproj/MainMenu.nib", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are -rw-r--r--
| 07:00:30 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Support/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/Italian.lproj/MainMenu.nib"
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/jconsole.jar", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/jconsole.jar"
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib", should be 95, user is 0
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib"
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Libraries", should be 95, user is 0
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Libraries"
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/Contents/Home/lib/security/cacerts", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/Contents/Home/lib/security/cacerts"
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/deploy.jar", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/deploy.jar"
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/libdeploy.jnilib", should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x
| 07:00:49 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/libdeploy.jnilib"
| 07:01:15 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/RemoteDesktop.menu/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/RemoteDesktopMenu.nib", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are -rw-r--r--
| 07:01:15 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/RemoteDesktop.menu/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/RemoteDesktopMenu.nib"
| 07:01:16 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Remote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/UIAgent.nib", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are -rw-r--r--
| 07:01:16 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Remote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/UIAgent.nib"
| 07:01:16 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Support/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/MainMenu.nib", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are -rw-r--r--
| 07:01:16 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Support/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/MainMenu.nib"
| 07:01:23 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/RemoteDesktop.menu/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/RemoteDesktopMenu.nib", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are -rw-r--r--
| 07:01:23 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/RemoteDesktop.menu/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/RemoteDesktopMenu.nib"
| 07:01:23 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Remote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/UIAgent.nib", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are -rw-r--r--
| 07:01:23 PM | Info | Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Remote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/UIAgent.nib"
| 07:01:23 PM | Info | Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Support/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/MainMenu.nib", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are -rw-r--r--

... end page 1

Super Duper made smart links instead of copies??

atebit — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:34:17 GMT

So I upgraded my MPB from Snow Lepoard to Lion last night, which turned out to be a big mistake for me. Luckily (or so I though) I had made a full backup via SuperDuper before starting the upgrade process.

When I went back to retrieve some files in my home directory, I found only soft links that pointed back to my (bad) files.

I've never seen SD do this before...what did I screw up? I simply told it to do a full copy, as usual.

SuperDuper! and Folder Actions

d.r.h. — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:28:08 GMT

Dave ....

Do you know of any reason SD might hang upon launch when folder actions are enabled? Here's the story. I've been using Macs for some 25 years now and have never encountered a virus/trojan (even in the Hypercard trojan days). However, with recent events of Flashback and other malware, I decided to test out enabling folder actions and attaching new item alert scripts to my launch agent and launch daemon folders. Here is my system info: Mac Mini (2.53 C2D, 10.6.8, 8GB RAM, very fast 7200 WD Scorpio Black HD). Immediately after setting up the folder actions, launching SD would result in a hang of 11 - 12 seconds (normally, SD launches immediately and is ready to use). After smart update is completed, if I just quit .... SD quits immediately. If, however, I click on the OK button after completion, there would be another hang. Removing the folder action scripts and disabling folder actions and everything is back to normal. There was nothing in the logs to explain this. While not a major problem, as this did not affect (as far as I can tell) back-up functioning .... I can't figure out the hang.

Carbonite tmp files

Reboot — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:13:14 GMT

I have just started a Carbonite back routine, but SuperDuper errors out trying to copy the Carbonite_IBF files.

Error copying /Library/Application Support/Carbonite/Data/Carbonite_IBF_46132.tmp to /Volumes/SeagateBackup /Library/Application Support/Carbonite/Data/Carbonite_IBF_46132.tmp of type 8 due to error 2
| 04:44:45 PM | Error | SDCopy: Error copying /Library/Application Support/Carbonite/Data/Carbonite_IBF_46132.tmp to /Volumes/SeagateBackup /Library/Application Support/Carbonite/Data/Carbonite_IBF_46132.tmp of type 8 due to error 2: No such file or directory

I am familiar with editing copy scripts to exclude/include etc certain directories or files, but I would like to exclude files whose name contains Carbonite_IBF. I do not want to choose the whole /Library/Application Support/Carbonite/Data folder as Data also holds logs and data that I believe would be necessary to rebuild from the Carbonite backup. The Carbonite_IBF_xxxxx temp files change all the time, they are being created and deleted as Carbonite is running, with the xxxxx changing with each new tmp file, which is why SuperDuper is giving the file not found error.

Would I need to make an AppleScript to exclude files that contain Carbonite_IBF or is there a way in the SuperDuper Script editor that I have missed.

If I need to create a script can you guide me as to the basic script and I can modify it for my particular directory/file?

Running Snow Leopard and Lion and the latest version 2.6.4(v89) of SuperDuper.

Thank-you for a great product, have been using it for years on my machines and my customers. It has bailed out more than one customer when a hard drive failed. They were able to immediately boot to the backup and keep in business until I was able to get a new hard drive installed.

External USB drive ejecting during backup problem

pixxelpusher — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:24:45 GMT

Hi I've got a problem with trying to copy my MacBook Pro internal drive to an external 500GB USB drive. The internal drive has 290GB of data on it, but halfway through the copy process the drive will eject and the copying fails. I've then tried to Smart Update the drive to continue the process, It does copy for a while but then ejects itself again. I'm not sure why it's doing this as only last week I did the same to my Mac Mini and it all went smooth. I want to put the 500GB drive into my MacBook Pro so that's why I want a perfect bootable copy. Any ideas? I've kept some of the logs that I can add if that helps? Thanks