Help now if possible... Carbon copy cloner hung up!

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Help now if possible... Carbon copy cloner hung up!

I just hooked up a Western Digital 200GB external drive to my G4 iMac so I could use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup my hard drive and do an Erase and Install of Tiger.

It is now 4 1/2 hours later and the clone has been hung up on "copying private" for over an hour. During the cloning I had not taken my preferences off the sleep mode and don't know if that blew it for me. It had gone to sleep and had proceded afterwards so I don't think so. My cloning is 4/5 done so I hate to restart.

Any suggestions on what to check or how to procede? The fact that I can get online tells me the cloning is probably not taking place.

Thanks anybody!

Posted on Oct 16, 2005 8:38 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 16, 2005 9:05 PM in response to Robin and Pete Eagan

When using CCC, always erase the destination drive first and turn the sleep option off. I am sure your cloning process got hung. Start over and don't forget to erase the drive first!!.

DD

PS BTW, here's a great little utility called "SleepLess" that puts an icon in your menu bar (a little light bulb") from which you can turn sleep on and off without having to reset your prefs everytime.

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Answer 2

Oct 16, 2005 9:14 PM in response to David DeCristoforo

Thanks for the quick reply. I ended up exiting CCC and looked on the external drive. The external has about 3/4 of a GB less than my Hard Drive, so it would be great if there was an easy way to find out what was missing instead of starting all over. But it sounds like I would be safer just starting over...let me know if you think there is an easier way. How long should CCC take to copy 63 GB?

Thanks again. R

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Answer 3

Oct 16, 2005 11:07 PM in response to Robin and Pete Eagan

I believe CCC goes through the root-level directories in order. Thus look for the first one you -haven't- got, in your backup, assume therefore previous one was incomplete; delete it; start CCC again and remove from the "to copy" list all the directories you did not delete on the backup... And go.

Carroll

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Answer 4

Oct 16, 2005 11:27 PM in response to Carroll Morgan

Thanks Carroll,
I decided to not take a chance so I started over, re-partitioned my external to one partition (therefore wiping it clean I think), and running CCC again. It took 1.5 hrs to get the 6+GB cloned but all seems well.

Thanks for replying. Now I'm on to upgrading to Tiger... finally!
R

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Answer 5

Oct 17, 2005 6:05 AM in response to Robin and Pete Eagan

Hello R:

As a future thought: There is a little program called Super Duper ($20 for the full version at www.shirt-pocket.com - I get no commission) that is excellent for making bootable clones. I abandoned CCC months ago on a recommendation and have been most pleased with SD. SD is fast (after the first backup it takes about 7 minutes to clone 80 GB to my external firewire drive), well documented, and was immediately updated for Tiger (CCC was not).

Barry

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Answer 6

Oct 17, 2005 11:17 AM in response to Barry Hemphill

Thanks for the suggestion. CCC worked fine for me after all but did take 90 minutes for 67GB. I wonder if that is my Western Digital external or the CCC? Super Duper sounds like a good option if its not my HD slowing things down. Maybe the second time with CCC it will be faster.
R

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Answer 7

mlt65

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Nov 21, 2005 2:32 PM in response to Robin and Pete Eagan

I installed Carbon Copy Cloner on my X-serve with 120Gb. Well it did not run properly and hang my system. I set it run every Sat at 3am.
I deleted everything in the server that has to do with CCC. But every weekend I have to reboot my server because the server is hang.

I checked on /etc/cron and /system/Library/LaunchDaemon. There's nothing in there. Does anybody know where else to look to stop this from running every weekend.

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Answer 8

scb

Level 5

5,388 points

Nov 21, 2005 2:44 PM in response to mlt65

com.bombich.ccc.plist
search for this preference. Delete it. That shopuld at least knock out the auto-backup.

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