[Nick]

BTW: After the first failure, most of the SD! logs seemed to have vanished—only a handful from last month showed up. Subsequent failures didn't seem to suffer from that apparent loss.

FWIW, here's a copy of the most-recent log:

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| 09:22:02 AM | Info | SuperDuper!, 2.6.2 (87), path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app, Mac OS 10.5.8 build 9L31a (i386)
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | Started on Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:22 AM
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | Source Volume: Nick's HD, mount: /, device: /dev/disk0s2, media: Hitachi HDP725032GLA380, interconnect: Internal SATA, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: 10.5.8 (9L31a), capacity: 297.77 GiB, used: 244.70 GiB, directories: 103654, files: 1075231, ejectable: NO, ACLs: Enabled
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | Target Volume: Nick's HD Clone, mount: /Volumes/Nick's HD Clone 1, device: /dev/disk4s5, media: LaCie d2 quadra, interconnect: External FireWire, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: 10.5.8 (9L31a), capacity: 348.30 GiB, used: 241.95 GiB, directories: 103251, files: 1076029, ejectable: YES, ACLs: Enabled
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | Copy Mode : Smart Update
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | PHASE: 1. Prepare to Copy Files
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing Nick's HD
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying the integrity of volinfo.database
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | volinfo.database OK
| 09:22:02 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Nick's HD
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Nick's HD
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | Permissions on '/' are enabled.
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing Nick's HD Clone
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Nick's HD Clone
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Nick's HD Clone
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | Permissions on '/Volumes/Nick's HD Clone 1' are enabled.
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that Nick's HD Clone ACL support matches Nick's HD
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preserving Spotlight state on Nick's HD Clone
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Disabling Spotlight search indexing on Nick's HD Clone
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | PHASE: 2. Copy Files
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Copying files from Nick's HD to Nick's HD Clone using Smart Update
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Cloning Nick's HD to Nick's HD Clone
| 09:22:03 AM | Info | Copying copy files with delete using script: /Users/Nick/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 09:22:04 AM | Info | Loading 27 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset
| 09:22:04 AM | Info | Loading 6 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system cache files.dset
| 09:22:04 AM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
| 09:22:04 AM | Info | Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Google Desktop Index files.dset
| 09:22:04 AM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude iTunes Temporary files.dset
| 09:22:04 AM | Info | Loading 0 commands from copy script /Users/Nick/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 09:22:07 AM | Info | /
| 09:22:07 AM | Info | /.vol
| 09:22:07 AM | Info | Ignoring /.vol
| 09:22:07 AM | Info | /cores
| 09:22:07 AM | Info | /Network
| 09:22:07 AM | Info | /Copies of Backups
| 09:23:07 AM | Info | /bin
| 09:23:07 AM | Info | /System
| 09:24:01 AM | Info | /private
| 09:24:01 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/folders/-H
| 09:24:01 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/folders/Pi
| 09:24:01 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/folders/zz
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/vm/swapfile0
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/db/BootCache.playlist
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/db/volinfo.database
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/usbmuxd
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/syslog
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/mDNSResponder
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/cupsd
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/asl_input
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/syslog.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/configd.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/virusbarrierl.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/diskarbitrationd.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/DirectoryService.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/mach.sym
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/netupdated.32
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/mds.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/com.apple.blued.launchd
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/automount.initialized
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/appfwd.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/vbsb.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/pcscd.pub
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/macaronid.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/vbsm.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/ntpd.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/utmpx
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/mds
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/pppconfd
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/portmap.socket
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/cron.pid
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/cups
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/.DSRunningSP1
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/.BlankFile
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/tmp.0.zqWEg8
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/tmp.1.1PW0iI
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/tmp.2.wfck3Q
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/com.apple.speech.synthesis.globals
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/BonjourPrinters.plist
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/Nick
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/launchd
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/mds
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/virusbarrier
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/MobileDevice.log
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/encyclopedia.shmsize
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/launchd-131.yXuKBy
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/launch-UHCz9x
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/launch-U2Rzai
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/launch-KaR1Be
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/icssuis501
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/ics217
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/target395.indexState
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /Desktop DF
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | Ignoring /Desktop DB
| 09:24:04 AM | Info | /Users
| 10:14:56 AM | Info | User terminated processing of transcript...
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(Note that I actually didn't terminate SD! until after I received a dialog telling me that it had failed.)