mount_hfs: stat /private/tmp/SVUmount: No such file or directory
 

I'm trying to backup a drive and get this error when I try. I've checked the disks with Disk Utility and all is fine.

Log file below.

[***] Tuesday, October 04, 2005 03:34:23 PM US/Eastern
|03:34:23 PM|Info| SuperDuper!, version 74, path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app, OS: 10.3.9 (7W98)
|03:34:23 PM|Info| Source Drive: /Volumes/PantherServer, name: PantherServer, device: /dev/disk0s4 type: hfs, OS: 10.3.9 (7W98), capacity: 24.41 GB, used: 3.14 GB, directories: 24203, files: 122719
|03:34:23 PM|Info| Target Image: /Volumes/panther/PantherServerDI.dmg, name: PantherServerDI.dmg
|03:34:23 PM|Info| Copy Mode : Copy all files.
|03:34:23 PM|Info| Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
|03:34:23 PM|Info| Transcript : ImageTranscript.plist
|03:34:23 PM|Info| PHASE: Prepare Volumes
|03:34:23 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Enable Permissions
|03:34:23 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on PantherServer
|03:34:23 PM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|03:34:23 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for PantherServer
|03:34:23 PM|Info| Permissions on '/Volumes/PantherServer' are enabled.
|03:34:23 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Prepare ASR image "PantherServerDI.dmg"
|03:34:23 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Creating disk image PantherServerDI.dmg
|03:34:24 PM|Info| Initializing...
|03:34:24 PM|Info| Creating...
|03:34:26 PM|Info| Formatting...
|03:34:26 PM|Info| Finishing...
|03:34:26 PM|Info| created: /Volumes/panther/PantherServerDI.dmg.sparseimage
|03:34:26 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Mounting /Volumes/panther/PantherServerDI.dmg on /tmp/SVUmount
|03:34:27 PM|Error| mount_hfs: stat /private/tmp/SVUmount: No such file or directory

That's curious. The implication seems to be that you don't have a temporary directory! Could that be the case?

Maybe you should use a sparse image instead -- see this post in the FAQ for the technique to use.

both /tmp and /private/tmp exist

Permissions on /tmp are:

drwxrwxrwx 39 root wheel 1326 4 Oct 15:43 tmp

Permissions on /private/tmp are:

G5:~ myuser$ ls -l /private/tmp/
total 0
drwx------ 3 myuser wheel 102 4 Oct 15:38 501

Interesting. Well, I don't know why mount would refuse/fail to mount the image, but using the sparse image should resolve the problem...

"using the sparse image should resolve the problem"

Not sure how to do that.. this is my first time evaluating SuperDuper!

That's what the link in the previous message points to... take a look there and it should be clearer.

Are you writing to an image for a reason? I assumed so, but if it's the only option available, that's because the destination isn't HFS+. There's another FAQ entry that covers that situation, too.

Oops... guess I need new glasses. 8-) I'll take a look. The reason for the image is I'm trying to make a virgin copy of a system install with all software (web, database and others) to build another server in a hurry if necessary (and keep a copy on DVD). Thanks.

Ah, OK. The problem you might run into is that the imaging framework in OSX is buggy in 10.3.9 -> 10.4.2. Sparse Images will be creatable, but conversion to DMG tends to fail. That's another reason to use a sparse image.

But, sparse images don't get block copied on restore. So, they're not faster than a regular file-by-file copy direct to a volume.

Thanks... anything is faster than a half a day installing (and building) all the components I need. (If a drive dies) So a sparse image should be fine.

Ah yes, indeed. Much better than that! :)