HI
Well I am learning a lot while doing this, so a big thanks for that.
Copied crash report below.... I've tried backing up again and it gets to 1.2MB and stops each time, quite a way short!!
Process: backupd [1801]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd
Identifier: backupd
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2013-08-28 23:04:44.659 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 15128AB5-DFA5-4C63-9635-4220B813411D
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 2
Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904bb166 mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904c295c mach_msg + 72
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94589e7e CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1790
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9458ab04 CFRunLoopRun + 84
4 backupd 0x00008651 0x1000 + 30289
5 backupd 0x0000257a 0x1000 + 5498
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904bb166 mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904c295c mach_msg + 72
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94589e7e CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1790
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9458aaa8 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
4 backupd 0x00012400 0x1000 + 70656
5 backupd 0x0001077b 0x1000 + 63355
6 backupd 0x0000a4ea 0x1000 + 38122
7 backupd 0x00005924 0x1000 + 18724
8 backupd 0x00006835 0x1000 + 22581
9 com.apple.Foundation 0x93fa6dfd -[NSThread main] + 45
10 com.apple.Foundation 0x93fa69a4 __NSThread__main__ + 308
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904ec055 _pthread_start + 321
12 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904ebf12 thread_start + 34
Thread 2 Crashed:
0 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96b736a9 LSBindingState::LSBindingState(LSContext*, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long) + 13
1 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96b2c7fd _LSIsClaimedPackageExtension(LSContext*, XCFChars const*) + 71
2 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96b1066c _LSIsPackageExtension(LSContext*, XCFChars const*) + 52
3 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96b10602 _LSNodeIsPackage + 94
4 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96b0fc29 _LSCopyInfoForNode + 645
5 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96b2c60c _LSCopyItemInfoForRefInfo + 124
6 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x980c8ef6 TFSInfo::FetchData() + 82
7 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x980c8e95 TFSInfo::IsPackage() const + 29
8 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x98109d96 TCopyItem::SetSourceIsPackage(FSRef*) + 26
9 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x980c83f7 TCopyReader::GetNextItem() + 1583
10 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x980c744f TCopyReader::Read(void*, TFSInfo, TFSInfo) + 249
11 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x981024b0 TFSCopyOperation::CopyToTarget() + 740
12 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9810329f TFSCopyOperation::DoCopy(THFSPlusRef const&) + 553
13 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x98103c7a TFSCopyOperation::Run() + 202
14 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x980f152f _FSOperation + 285
15 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x906bba7d _FSFileOperationOperate + 473
16 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904ec055 _pthread_start + 321
17 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904ebf12 thread_start + 34
Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904c234e __semwait_signal + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904ecccd pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003 + 73
2 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9066cde3 TSWaitOnCondition + 126
3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9064ba21 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon + 389
4 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x980cb785 TCopyWriter::SetCatalogInfo() + 1147
5 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x980c6d97 TCopyWriter::Write() + 209
6 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x980c68dc TCopyWriter::WriteTaskProc(void*) + 70
7 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9066afbb PrivateMPEntryPoint + 56
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904ec055 _pthread_start + 321
9 libSystem.B.dylib 0x904ebf12 thread_start + 34
Thread 2 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x96b10649 ecx: 0x00000061 edx: 0xb00fe970
edi: 0xb00fe970 esi: 0xb00fe530 ebp: 0xb00fe4f8 esp: 0xb00fe4e0
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010282 eip: 0x96b736a9 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000000
Tahnks for all your brilliant support so far.