Cloning Hard Drive problems

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Cloning Hard Drive problems

Yesterday I went out and bought a new FW External Drive. I used "Disc Utility" and checked my internal hard drive. I had no problems. I then found this great article written by a member on "Cloning w/ Disc Utility". It was very helpful (THANKS!!). My problem is I have used about 27GB of my HD. At about 7 GB, I got this message

RESTORE FAILURE
An error (2) occured while copying. (No such file or directory)

After 3 times erasing/trying this, I used "Super Duper!". It worked fine, and I created a bootable drive.

How can I make an exact copy of my HD? Many files were not there, and many files had a red circle with -. I couldn't access those files and I was trying my my adm password.

Any help would be appreciated !! THANKS

G4 Power PC 800, Mac OS X (10.4.3), 1.25 GB RAM

Posted on Jan 5, 2006 12:15 PM

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a brody

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Jan 5, 2006 12:26 PM in response to AppleG4Cool

I have learned that when the data gets over a certain amount, Superduper and Silver Keeper will baulk. One thing which helped was to make sure that Spotlight wasn't indexing the drive while the backup was happening. Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy is where to add the destination hard drive. If that won't add, you'll have to solve corruption in your Spotlight index, which I can try to help.

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Wade Peeler

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Jan 5, 2006 2:12 PM in response to a brody

The OP said it worked fine with SuperDuper, but not with Disk Utility. I use SuperDuper frequently to backup around 70GB. What amount of data have you observed causes SuperDuper problems?

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Answer 3

Jan 5, 2006 2:16 PM in response to a brody

Hi

I have learned that when the data gets over a certain amount, Superduper and Silver Keeper will baulk.

Well, you got me confused. If you are to provide help with the specific problem AppleG4Cool is experiencing you should enlighten us as to what you are talking about. I have never had a problem with either SuperDuper! or Silverkeeper "baulking" at high amounts of data (yes, I use them both, for backing up two differrent G4s).

Matthew Whiting

Message was edited by: matthew whiting (corrected typo)

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Answer 4

Jan 5, 2006 2:22 PM in response to a brody

Hi a brody;

I have learned that when the data gets over a certain amount, Superduper and Silver Keeper will baulk.

I would be interested in where you came up with this gem. So far I have been using SuperDuper for the last couple of years without any such problems. Could you please enlighten us as to exact what you have seen?

Allan

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sasa43

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Jan 5, 2006 2:48 PM in response to AppleG4Cool

Hi,

I used Carbon Copy Cloner to creat disk image, and I used it to make 8 G5(s) machines identecal with no problem.

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a brody

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Jan 5, 2006 3:01 PM in response to Allan Eckert

Well when my drive has had more than 90 GB of data, I get -50 errors in Silverkeeper and Superduper attempting to backup. The problem seems to have been resolved by updating to Superduper 2.0.1 or backing up to a completely empty drive with Disk Utility or Retrospect Express first.

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sasa43

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Jan 5, 2006 3:21 PM in response to AppleG4Cool

How big your HD?
The one you want to clone and the new one?

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AppleG4Cool Author

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Jan 5, 2006 4:57 PM in response to AppleG4Cool

My problem is at about 7 GB (used 27 GB of my drive), I got this message using Apple's Disk Utility

RESTORE FAILURE
An error (2) occured while copying. (No such file or
directory)

After 3 times erasing/trying the disc utility, I used "Super Duper!". It worked fine, and I created a bootable
drive.

How can I make an exact copy of my HD? Many files
were not there, and many files had a red circle with
-. I couldn't access those files and I was trying my
my adm password.

Any help would be appreciated !! THANKS

What is this error and do you have an idea of why I got it? Do I need to reinstall Tiger or could it be from Classic 9.2? Why would the clone drive not allow me to access different files (picts, documents, etc) and give me a red circle with a line in it? A lot of questions.... YES, but I can't figure this out.
THANKS

G4 Power PC 800 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1.25 GB RAM

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AppleG4Cool Author

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Jan 5, 2006 4:59 PM in response to AppleG4Cool

sasa43

My drive is 60 GB (used only 27 GB) and the external is a roomy 250 GB. Hope that helps.

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Answer 10

Jan 5, 2006 11:13 PM in response to AppleG4Cool

Hi again

What you are experiencing is unusual. You should be able to clone with any of the aforementioned applications and end up with an exact bootable clone of your HD.

For problems with SuperDuper!, Dave Nanian of Shirt Pocket Software is usually very helpful, and has solved many problems for individual users. You might want to see his FAQ first and then get in touch:

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/

I suspect you have some kind of file corruption on your HD, but I do not have the knowledge to help you further.

Matthew Whiting

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