Backing up to a .DMG File on Server

[Marco_Polo]

It sounds to me like your code isn't running

Yes it is. It definitely is. You made me just paranoid enough that I edited the script to add some beeps to it. It's running.

SD is not waiting for the script to finish executing before it attempts the backup.

I can buy a short delay if I set it to repair permissions on the source volume first, but that doesn't buy me enough time for the image to mount.

Note, too: if your DMGs are the same size as the original volume, that's as large as the sparse image would ever grow

A .sparseimage backup of my 250GB startup drive containing roughly 180GB of files quickly swells to fill up my entire 320GB backup drive. The sparse image file just grows and grows uncontrollably.

See this earlier thread for more info on this problem.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2103