Forum: General
06-15-2023, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 52,174
Power cycling just the external drive
I've been using SuperDuper! since 2007 to perform a nightly clone of my boot drive. I encountered this "enable ownership" problem for the first time last night.
Since I have a lot going on my...
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Forum: General
05-07-2015, 09:50 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 9,951
I should have provided a more complete...
I should have provided a more complete description in my original post.
Smart Updating the second Mac mini in Target Mode means its internal drive is being constantly updated. If the primary mini...
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Forum: General
05-03-2015, 05:37 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 9,951
Smart Update from one Mac mini to another?
I'm helping a client move his small business from Windows XP to a Mac mini running Yosemite. He's prepared to buy two Mac minis in order to have minimal downtime if the production mini fails.
My...
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Forum: General
08-04-2014, 10:53 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 9,863
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Forum: General
02-27-2014, 12:11 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,293
Wish: show estimated time to completion
SuperDuper! 2.7.2 is currently doing a new complete clone of my boot drive to an erased external HD.
After it had been running for 90 minutes, I used PixelStick to measure the progress bar – the...
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Forum: General
11-03-2012, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,243
SuperDuper! ran fine this morning.
I suspect...
SuperDuper! ran fine this morning.
I suspect this was due to swapping my daily backup drives yesterday afternoon, which meant deleting my "Hobbes B" schedule and recreating my "Hobbes A" daily...
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Forum: General
11-02-2012, 10:08 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,243
Copy failed. File SuperDuper!.app wasn't found.
Growl announced this morning that the scheduled nightly clone of my boot drive had failed:
SuperDuper! Copy Failed
Copy of Hobbes to Hobbes B failed. File SuperDuper!.app wasn't found.
When I...
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Forum: General
08-05-2012, 12:23 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,534
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Forum: General
03-30-2012, 11:06 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 8,880
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Forum: General
11-01-2011, 10:54 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 20,279
Jumping back to 2006
Here's a direct link to Dave's excellent blog post: "I/O Error Recovery" (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/index.php/comments/i_o_error_recovery/)
I especially like his concluding paragraph.
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Forum: General
10-24-2011, 12:25 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 20,279
Full Backup underway
Thanks, Dave, for checking into my Smart Update failure and pointing out the Troubleshooting tip. Too often I forget to RTFM. Sigh. :o
I've freed 10% of my boot drive and launched a full backup...
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Forum: General
10-23-2011, 07:15 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 20,279
Holding off on a fresh backup
Thanks, Dave, for your super speedy (better yet, SuperSpeedy!) response.
Since both drives are the same size, and the nearly full clone drive is missing 265 GB of files, it would appear the clone...
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Forum: General
10-23-2011, 05:12 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 20,279
Me, too
I just sent my log file to Shirt Pocket with this description:
My nightly Smart Update of my 1 TB boot drive to an external 1 TB drive failed last night due to "error 28: No space left on device."...
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Forum: General
09-19-2010, 10:50 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 13,552
A-ok
I'm tardy with my followup. Restart and Copy Now worked fine later on Friday.
Saturday morning I was greeted with a normal Smart Update of my startup HD clone.
-- Ward
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Forum: General
09-17-2010, 10:53 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 13,552
Hmmm. Happened to me, too.
I came to the forum to report a mysterious "could not locate the Destination volume" failure this morning. I'll add on to this thread rather than open a parallel one. Although I could quietly...
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Forum: General
05-28-2010, 04:38 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,996
Smart Update two drives with the same name?
I have a daily Smart Update of my boot drive ("Hobbes") to an external drive (currently "Hobbes A"). After I post this message, I'm going to dismount "Hobbes A" and swap it with "Hobbes B" in my...
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Forum: General
02-25-2010, 01:00 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 25,989
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Forum: General
02-22-2010, 04:21 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 25,989
Me, too
I just encountered precisely the same error after an early morning scheduled smart update of my boot drive backup. The log file showed a successful copy.
As an experiment, I'm going to delay...
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Forum: General
01-25-2010, 01:50 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 7,158
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Forum: General
01-24-2010, 03:20 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 14,621
ChronoSync is great for specific folders
SuperDuper! is ideal for backing up whole volumes. However, when I'm interested in just a specific folder, ChronoSync (http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html) quickly syncs...
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Forum: General
12-29-2009, 11:08 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 9,020
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Forum: General
12-28-2009, 12:41 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 10,515
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Forum: General
12-28-2009, 12:28 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 9,020
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Forum: General
12-28-2009, 12:00 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 14,133
Wow, that was fast!
Thanks, Dave, for your super speedy response.
That's the fix. Replacing the blank source menu choice with an actual drive eliminated the error on the next launch.
-- Ward
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Forum: General
12-28-2009, 10:57 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 9,614
Any word from Objective Development?
igirl, if you contacted Objective Development, please let us know what you found out.
I'm about to swap in a new cloned boot drive, and it would be nice to know in advance how to best handle...
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