On Nov 1, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Dan wrote: > What a waste of space and time!
I just cloned a drive with about 420 GB of data. It took a little over 7 hours in a G5 with a pair of striped RAID source HDs on the 1.5 Gbps built-in SATA 1.0 bus, and a single target HD on a 3 Gbps PCI-X SATA 2.0 bus. It was cloning just slightly quicker than 1 GB per minute. When it finally finished the clone, I ran Disk Utility>Repair Disk on the clone, and it was fine. I then ran Disk Utility>Repair Permissions and it was completely wrong, and I mean EVERY single file. The source HD was literally perfect on permissions checked immediately before the clone, and I checked it again after, and it's still perfect. I started the Repair Permissions a 10 AM local time, it said "Estimated time: 7 hours" the same as the clone took! I was gone all day long, and just returned, it's 7:42 PM now, so it's been working on the permissions repair for 9 hours 42 minutes. The "Estimated time" box now says "14 hours" and the completion bar is less than halfway done, probably about 40%. This is crazy. I never had this problem with older CCC or older Disk Utility. I can't remember a Repair Permissions ever taking more than 10 minutes max., so I have no idea what the problem here is? The files are streaming across continuously, so it is repairing, but if it's truly 14 hours added to the near 10 already, it'll be 24 hours to repair permissions! Since I cloned in only 7 hours, perhaps I should try again? This isn't what I was expecting from either CCC or Disk Utility. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
