Forum: General
12-09-2013, 11:13 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 5,926
Overwrite Mavericks from 10.8.5 Image backup?
I may need to back out of an installation of Mavericks. I'm not very pleased with the OS just yet. I have a 10.8.5 image ready to go. Do you know of any gotchas I need to look out for? Are there...
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Forum: General
12-09-2013, 11:07 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 11,671
BUFFALO MiniStation
I've been using this one:
BUFFALO MiniStation Plus 1 TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - HD-PNT1.0U3B I bought that from Amazon and now I think they've dropped quite a bit in price. There may be a...
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Forum: General
12-22-2012, 07:11 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 5,888
FW, USB, Thunderbolt?
Hello,
I haven't posted here in some time. Mainly because SD! just works. Thank you.
I'm considering a new iMac and noticed they no longer have FireWire ports. At one time that interface was...
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Forum: General
10-30-2009, 04:57 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 27,524
Because when SD! notified me of an upgrade it...
Because when SD! notified me of an upgrade it included the following text concerning what "new features" were included:
- Support for "Sparse Bundle" images
I read that and thought maybe there...
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Forum: General
10-25-2009, 08:39 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 27,524
I meant sparse bundle, it was a typo.
Sparse...
I meant sparse bundle, it was a typo.
Sparse Bundles do have the ability for encryption. This is done when you create them via Disk Utility. 128 or 512 -bit AES encryption are the options.
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Forum: General
10-25-2009, 03:02 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 27,524
sparse bundles and the new 2.6.2(87) update
Just noticed in the latest upgrade it claims support for Sparse Bundle images.
What does this really mean? I've been using SmartBundles for some time now as a way to secure the content of...
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Forum: General
05-08-2008, 07:06 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 8,316
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Forum: General
05-08-2008, 03:07 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 8,316
Copy and To fields aren't enabled
I just tried to run a backup and the Copy and To fields are disabled. I can't select the HD to backup.
I have a registered copy. It's worked many times before.
Any ideas?
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Forum: General
03-30-2008, 11:35 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 11,230
After the Restore
I did a restore from an SD backup and it worked but I found that some settings didn't come with the restore. The restore was to a new machine.
The screen saver was the default instead of the one...
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Forum: General
03-12-2008, 10:02 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 8,725
using TM after a SD Restore
Apple sent me a new replacement iMac because of a technical issue the original machine was having.
No problem, I use SD. So, I boot from my external SD drive and copy to the new computer. Things...
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Forum: General
12-02-2007, 01:47 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 13,359
CCC vs SD
Well I didn't want to but since SD didn't work with Leopard I tried Carbon Copy Cloner and it seems stable. I can boot from it and it seems to be working.
Dave, you said it wasn't as fast or...
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Forum: General
11-19-2007, 08:12 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 13,911
smart update / leopard
Does Smart Update work with 10.5.1? I know I can't make a bootable but I thought I could backup my files.
I created a new partition on an external LaCie HD. Manually ran a copy. That took a...
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Forum: General
11-18-2007, 01:06 PM
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Replies: 73
Views: 81,269
Now who's being "naive" ???
As having worked...
Now who's being "naive" ???
As having worked on both sides of the fence, hardward/network administration and now software development I can tell you if you install something without testing that...
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Forum: General
11-15-2007, 06:38 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 19,153
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Forum: General
11-05-2007, 07:12 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 39,737
Leopard
Well I've tried the various install attempts on my 2 generation old iMac. Archive/Install, Clean/Install, Upgrade. They all had "issues" of locking up. The panic thing.
Finally, I made a clean...
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Forum: General
10-28-2007, 04:17 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 12,296
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Forum: General
10-28-2007, 03:27 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 12,296
sparseimage for 10.5?
Where is the post about the specific incompatibilities with 10.5?
The reason I ask is I've made a backup to a secure sparse.image file. I was able to install 10.5 and restore back to 10.4.10.
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Forum: General
08-10-2007, 01:49 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 19,267
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Forum: General
08-10-2007, 01:39 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 8,026
SD! not mounting sparseImage
| 12:27:28 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Mounting regBackup
| 12:27:34 AM | Error | load_hdi: IOHDIXControllerArrivalCallback: timed out waiting for IOKit to finish matching.
It looks like it's...
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Forum: General
03-10-2007, 05:00 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 14,318
Volumes?
I just opened up a terminal window.
cd /Volumes
ls
Then I see:
20070310 LaCie Backup Macintosh HD
20070310 is the DMG.
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Forum: General
03-10-2007, 04:41 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 14,318
Restart you Mac...
Restart my Mac??? Really? What am I a Windoze user? (Not since June of last year thank you.)
Sigh. All is not right with my MacWorld. I did restart and things worked this time. There was a...
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Forum: General
03-10-2007, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 14,318
backup failing
I have a routine backup using a sparse image that I run nightly. It works great.
Today, I thought I'd create another sparse image with Disk Util and run another backup that wouldn't get...
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Forum: General
08-09-2006, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 10,861
"nohup" ?
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. What is "nohup"?
I called the unmount script from an iCal schedule and it seemed to work. So at least I have a solution. Not sure it's the right way...
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Forum: General
08-08-2006, 10:41 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 10,861
almost there, unmount script
Okay, I wrote a AppleScript Application that checks to see if SD! is running and as long as it is, don't try the unmount. Otherwise, unmount the drive.
It looks as though this time SD! called the...
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Forum: General
08-08-2006, 09:47 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 10,861
scripts
I have a simple applescript that I want to run after the backup process. I get different errors.
In one case SD! said it couldn't find the file. I saved the AppleScript as an application and had...
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