(Zero-length) File caused SuperDuper to abort backup

[alancfrancis]

Hi,

I just bought myself a big fat external firewire drive to backup the family laptops. I've been tearing my hair out with both SuperDuper and CCC. To cut to the chase, problem seems resolved and I'll be registering SD for future incremental backups.

I'm running 10.4.2 and the backup would fail (on SD, CCC just crashed) when it tried to *write* /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/specs. The error was SVUclone: Error: Couldn't Create.

On investigation, this file turned out to be zero-length...could this be the problem?

When I trashed it, the backup failed again when it encountered the file in the trash, so I emptied. This time the backup has now worked twice without a hitch.

I've attached the full log, hope it helps.

[***] Tuesday, August 30, 2005 04:53:24 PM Europe/London
|04:53:24 PM|Info| SuperDuper!, version 74, path: /Users/acf/Applications/SuperDuper!.app, OS: 10.4.2 (8C46)
|04:53:24 PM|Info| Source Drive: /, name: Groucho, device: /dev/disk0s2 type: hfs, OS: 10.4.2 (8C46), capacity: 74.53 GB, used: 55.14 GB, directories: 82798, files: 391295
|04:53:24 PM|Info| Target Drive: /Volumes/PowerBook Backup 1, name: PowerBook Backup 1, device: /dev/disk2s3 type: hfs, OS: N/A, capacity: 83.88 GB, used: 0.04 GB, directories: 4, files: 8
|04:53:24 PM|Info| Copy Mode : Erase, then copy files
|04:53:24 PM|Info| Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
|04:53:24 PM|Info| Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist
|04:53:24 PM|Info| PHASE: Volume Preparation
|04:53:24 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Erase PowerBook Backup 1
|04:53:24 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Erasing PowerBook Backup 1
|04:53:31 PM|Info| Journaling has been enabled on /dev/disk2s3
|04:53:31 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Restoring PowerBook Backup 1 UUID (63D41D9795A28AF9)
|04:53:31 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Enable Permissions
|04:53:31 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Groucho
|04:53:31 PM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|04:53:31 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Groucho
|04:53:31 PM|Info| Permissions on '/' are enabled.
|04:53:31 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on PowerBook Backup 1
|04:53:31 PM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|04:53:31 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for PowerBook Backup 1
|04:53:32 PM|Info| Permissions on '/Volumes/PowerBook Backup 1' are enabled.
|04:53:32 PM|Info| PHASE: Clone from Source to Target
|04:53:32 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Copy Files from Groucho to PowerBook Backup 1
|04:53:32 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Cloning Groucho to PowerBook Backup 1
|04:53:32 PM|Info| Copying all files using script: /Users/acf/Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
|04:53:32 PM|Info| Loading 19 commands from copy script /Users/acf/Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset
|04:53:32 PM|Info| Loading 1 commands from copy script /Users/acf/Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
|04:53:32 PM|Info| Loading 2 commands from copy script /Users/acf/Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
|04:53:32 PM|Info| Copy script command hash contains 22 commands
|04:54:01 PM|Info| WARNING: Caught I/O exception(22): Invalid argument
|04:54:01 PM|Info| WARNING: Source: /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/specs, lstat(): 0
|04:54:01 PM|Info| WARNING: Target: /Volumes/PowerBook Backup 1/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/specs, lstat(): 0
|04:54:01 PM|Info| Logging attributes for item: /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/specs of type: 8
|04:54:01 PM|Info| Type:
|04:54:01 PM|Info| Creator:
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kIsOnDesk: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kColor: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kIsShared: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kHasNoINITs: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kHasBeenInited: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kHasCustomIcon: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kIsStationery: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kNameLocked: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kHasBundle: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kIsInvisible: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Info| kIsAlias: NO
|04:54:01 PM|Error| SVUclone: Error: Couldn't create