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user cant get to backup partition - consistently
helping a user with SuperDuper v2.5
they are using a external USB 2.0 drive a. have been Smart Updating (seemingly ok) - no restore has been done to test the backup's yet b. the backup partition is on "MBP BU" which is a 100 Gb partition in GUID that holds the clone of the user MBP drive c. consistently - the destination drive will appear, but is greyed out Tried: remove and reinstall of SD client remove "settings" folder to no avail. I do notice when I ls -al /Volumes that the MBP BU partition comes up as: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Mar 16 12:05 MBP BU -> / but Im not sure if this is just a broken symlink issue or not. Any advice appreciated |
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Did you try restarting the Mac?
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tried restarting to no avail
thanks for your quick reply. restarting has no effect.
OTOH, if DU is used to format the partition, SD will again see it. Of course, this defeats the idea of Smart Updating entirely. |
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OK. Try using Get Info to change the drive read/write ownership to allow read/write for all users.
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was able to change other to write
ok, that worked for that session but after reboot the permissions survive ie, 755 but the destination drive is still greyed out.
Also, by using Get-Info or Terminal, when trying to: sudo chmod 777 /Volumes/MPB\ BU the write permission never gets written to Group or Other. Not sure why. I see a symlink as the type of file the destination drive is, so its not clear how SD handles symlinks. Also - Smart Update worked to completion, at least as far as I can tell, but the destination drive still doesnt boot the Mac. Once upon a time, SD and Leopard and the external USB 2.0 drive all played nice. |
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Hm. Are you sure you're not running from the backup? It looks like, perhaps, you are.
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