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Help! Still can't back up MacBook on Hammer Firewire
I'm a newcomer to SuperDuper! and haven't yet been able to successfully backup my MacBook (74.5GB = 66 GB on MacBook HD partition and 8 GB on Untitled Windows XP partition) to my Hammer external drive (320GB shown as 298.1 in Disk Uility). I have the Hammer formatted GPT (GUID Partition Table) and 2 partitions right now (Intel_Boot @ 148.92GB HFS+ and PPC_Boot @ 148.73GM HFS+[for Mac Mini G4 running Tiger later]).
I've tried for days to get a full backup of "MacBook HD" and it hangs no matter what options I use. I see in the discussions that there have been problems with OS X 10.4.8. My backups have stopped at different points from 1.7GB to ~6GB. Detailed instructions would be appreciated. I've verfified the disks repeatedly, repartitioned the Hammer, prayed, cursed, whatever. Help! |
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"Hangs", as in "looks stuck"? If so, how long have you left it: it could just be copying a large file or -- if you're using FileVault -- you might not be following the User's Guide instructions to back up from a non-FileVault account...
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I'm talking about leaving it for more than an hour--
last night I started it then hid it and 2 hours later checked on it and it had hung 1-1/2 hours earlier.
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I don't think I have FileVault turned on.
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FileVault is turned off.
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OK. Again, "hang" is different than "crash". So: we need to determine what file is causing the problem.
When it's stuck, please open Terminal. Then, copy the following to the clipboard: Code:
sudo lsof | grep SDCopy That'll have a list of what we have open. The last two lines are what we're copying (from and to), and should help determine what's really happening here.
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