Troubles

[fyngyrz]

...tracked the problem down to a particular file? You should be able to tell if you are having my kind of problem (appears to be a large file issue at this point) or a continuously updated file as described above.

There are some good suggestions a couple of posts back in this thread. What you want to do, I think, is run the backup until it hangs, then run the commands above (you'll have to enter your password) and then look to see if you can recognize one of your files in the list of stuff SuperDuper's SDCopy command has open.

I'm waiting to hear from someone about the large file for my case at this point, but I hope that helped you.

[fyngyrz]

I've left it sit overnight, about 12 hours. But that was when it was going slow. When I decided it had hung in the new, faster version, I had left it a few minutes. Took about 30 to get 18 gigs copied, then hung, apparently doing nothing, for about maybe between five and ten minutes.

I'll start it again, now (1:30), and check it when I get back from work, about 5. If it takes 30 minutes to do 18 gigs, I have about double that to do, so an hour is a reasonable, though loose, estimate. three hours should be more than enough. I'll let you know what I find out.

[dnanian]

My guess is it's going to take well over 5-10 minutes to copy 8GB, Ben. I'd definitely leave it and check the destination drive to see if, perhaps, the file is getting larger.

[fyngyrz]

Yes, you're right -- it takes quite some time to copy 8GB. And with that in mind, considering it was going so slowly before (through the hub), it was probably working then, too, but taking a day or two to do the file.

I did two successful complete erase, then copy (not smart) backups, then I reformatted the drive as two partitions (I only have an 80 GB drive in the mini) so I have a 100 and a 200, then did an erase then copy backup to the 100, and that went fine also. I've scheduled a smart backup for 5:30 AM every morning, and hopefully that'll be the end of my worries.

I thank you very much for your *wonderful* support. I'll be writing a review, and I will point you at it when it is up.

[dnanian]

Hooray, Ben -- congratulations on getting the job done!

[dnanian]

Oh, and to follow-up with Brian's case (the other user who came in on this thread indicating he thought he had a similar problem), his difficulty was a damaged directory structure. After running Disk Utility, his backup worked just fine.