Problem with Backup 3 (3.1.2) under Snow Leopard

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Problem with Backup 3 (3.1.2) under Snow Leopard

Okay so I use Apple's Backup 3.1.2 which is free to all .Mac members as you know to back up all of my Macs to a NAS (networked drive). Anyway, under Snow Leopard this stops working. When you try to tell it to save the back ups on a mapped or mounted network drive it will not let you choose it and defaults back to the Macintosh HD. Under Leopard it had no problem doing this. What is interesting is that if I reinstall Backup 3 it will start to work and allow me to save to the network drive but as soon as Backup tries to do its backup by it self AND if the network drive is not mounted for some reason (has to be mounted manually), BackUp breaks the save point with the NAS and you can not tell it to save to the NAS again. As you also probably know everytime you restart your mac all the mounted network drives are not connected until you manually open them your selves. Under Leopard Backup would actually say "Waiting for Christian_BackUp" until I would open it and then it would start the backup automatically. Please help me get this working...I can not use Time Machine because I need a smooth, reliable, and working way to back up to a NAS.

Thanks for your help in advance!

PS: I have confirmed this problem on three macs all running Snow Leopard with different NAS setups.

Many Macs, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 1, 2009 9:05 AM

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Sep 1, 2009 9:32 AM in response to DiscoNomad

-bump- I mean I understand that not many people use BackUp but if you could then recommend another third party backup software that is as lean as BackUp and proven secure that would be helpful somewhat.

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Sep 1, 2009 11:38 AM in response to DiscoNomad

Okay I finally figured it out. This really a fix but it will get it to work for now. All you have to do I make sure that the nas drive is mounted before the application Backup 3 is started. If you accidentally start the app before the nas drive is mounted you have to quit it, open the drive and then restart the app. Like I said this really isn't a fix because the automation and schedualing really doesn't work. Until Apple decides to fix this I would recommend going to SuperDuper!. Hope this helps.

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Oct 2, 2009 9:43 AM in response to DiscoNomad

Whenever I put my Mac to sleep Backup 3.1.2 stops running scheduled backups to my iDisk automatically. This behavior started only after I installed Snow Leopard. They always ran just fine under Leopard whether I had put my iMac into sleep mode or not. If I reboot now and never put my computer into a "hard" sleep the automatic backups work fine, but as soon as I manually select "Sleep" mode the automatic backups stop happening even if the computer is awake when the backups are scheduled to occur.

Message was edited by: Joseph Snodgrass

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