Error Halting Backup
 

Would appreciate any help.

Trying to make a backup copy of my boot drive onto an external lacie firewire drive. Ran SD and got an error halting backup message. Should I stop running all applications when I try to clone the drive? (I was playing some music, surfing the web, and copying over some other files onto a different partition). Here's the relevant logfile info.

|11:19:44 PM|Info| WARNING: Caught I/O exception(5): Input/output error
|11:19:44 PM|Info| WARNING: Source: /Users/jimmy/Library/Application Support/Growl/Tickets/SpamSieve.growlTicket, lstat(): 0
|11:19:44 PM|Info| WARNING: Target: /Volumes/Backup3/Users/jimmy/Library/Application Support/Growl/Tickets/SpamSieve.growlTicket, lstat(): 0
|11:19:44 PM|Info| Logging attributes for item: /Users/jimmy/Library/Application Support/Growl/Tickets/SpamSieve.growlTicket of type: 8
|11:19:44 PM|Info| Type:
|11:19:44 PM|Info| Creator:
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kIsOnDesk: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kColor: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kIsShared: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kHasNoINITs: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kHasBeenInited: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kHasCustomIcon: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kIsStationery: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kNameLocked: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kHasBundle: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kIsInvisible: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| kIsAlias: NO
|11:19:44 PM|Info| Error copying /Users/jimmy/Library/Application Support/Growl/Tickets/SpamSieve.growlTicket to /Volumes/Backup3/Users/jimmy/Library/Application Support/Growl/Tickets/SpamSieve.growlTicket of type 8
|11:19:44 PM|Error| SVUclone: Error: Couldn't create
|11:19:44 PM|Error| : Input/output error
|11:19:44 PM|Error| SVUclone: Error copying /Users/jimmy/Library/Application Support/Growl/Tickets/SpamSieve.growlTicket to /Volumes/Backup3/Users/jimmy/Library/Application Support/Growl/Tickets/SpamSieve.growlTicket of type 8
|11:19:44 PM|Error| : Input/output error

might have found problem
 

as I noticed in some of the other posts, the problem seemed to be with the file. I ended up just deleting the file/directory since I can live without growl and am currently trying the clone again. I did happen to look at the general (not super duper) console log and found this (which could explain what the problem with the file was)

2005-10-04 10:07:09.487 System Preferences[495] Tried to init a ticket from this file, but it isn't a ticket file: /Users/jimmy/Library/Application Support/Growl/Tickets/SpamSieve.growlTicket

If I am understanding this correctly, the file says it's a growl ticket, but it isn't recognized as one - it's probably a corrupted ticket file.

That's right -- it's a corrupt file. You've got it exactly -- probably on a bad spot on the drive.