Dead in the Water

[BillyBoy]

I just bought SuperDuper and attempted to copy my boot volume to my external FireWire hard drive. No go - log file says:

|12:37:30 PM|Info| Copy Mode : Erase, then copy files
|12:37:30 PM|Info| Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
|12:37:30 PM|Info| Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist
|12:37:31 PM|Info| PHASE: Volume Preparation
|12:37:31 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Erase External FW
|12:37:31 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Erasing External FW
|12:37:41 PM|Info| Journaling has been enabled on /dev/disk1s3
|12:37:41 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Restoring External FW UUID (4C39CDC1CDB9AEA6)
|12:37:41 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Enable Permissions
|12:37:41 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Tiger
|12:37:41 PM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|12:37:41 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Tiger
|12:37:41 PM|Info| Permissions on '/' are enabled.
|12:37:41 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on External FW
|12:37:41 PM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|12:37:42 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for External FW
|12:37:42 PM|Error| Could not disable Ignore Permissions

I upgraded to 10.4.3 yesterday - is this a 10.4.3 incompatibility or something else?

[dnanian]

Hi, BillyBoy. Please see this FAQ for the answer to your query. There's also some background on the issue on my blog.

[BillyBoy]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Hi, BillyBoy. Please see this FAQ for the answer to your query. There's also some background on the issue on my blog.

Thanks for the quick reply All is well now.

[dnanian]

Glad to hear it.