Howdy Kaye Geoff ,
In my experience with something like this the end result of trying to
patch
the existing system has never been totally satisfactory .
It has been quicker , easier , and more reliable to bite the bullet ,
Reformat the hard drive and copy back an archive ..
but how effetctive that is for you depends on whether you
have actually archived a total copy of Applications and System ,
as well as your User files .
I use Superduper running from another source to copy the contents of
a Disk Image
of my Hard Drive , back to the working Hard Drive.
The copy usually takes 1 to 2 hours and everything is sweet after.
Cheers
Bob
On 06/11/2006, at 11:40 AM, Kaye and Geoff wrote:
Hi,
eMac OS10.2.8 backing up to partition on external firewire disk
We use Silverkeeper to do our routine backups. and recently
upgraded. The new version(1.1.4) was incompatible with the old
version, and offered features we wanted, including the ability to
make the backup disk bootable. We archived our old backup (thank
heavens), erased the backup disk, and tried out the new version
with somewhat disastrous results.
Although the backup appeared to work ( it took a couple of hours
and files appeared on the backup disk), the only entry written to
the log was an error (code 50 - indicates timeout). After finishing
the backup and rebooting we found that about half our applications
had disappeared from the Applications folder (and weren't on the
backup disk). That was solvable, since we had the archive. but we
are left with a rather strange problem. Our internal drive now
shows the unix directories (/var, /etc, /usr and so on) in the
finder window.
Initially we thought it might be a permissions/ownership problem,
but fixing permissions didn't sort it out (although there were
thousands of file permissions that changed). Further investigation
shows that our internal disk has / as its mount point. I would
normally expect all disks to have /Volumes as the mount point.
Can we change the boot disk mount point without causing problems?
If so, can someone remind us where the appropriate unix config file
can be found? We're familiar enough with unix to be able to edit
the file directly, but can't find the right file!
A secondary problem is the existence of an alias visible from the
finder called dev that points to nothing (and gives an error),
with root/wheel as owner/group having no access as the
permissions, which are grayed out and unchangeable. Attempting to
change the ownership from the finder asks for admin password, then
gives a no permission error. It doesn't show up at all in
Terminal, and /dev itself is fine. Any ideas?
Needless to say, we've gone back to the old version of Silverkeeper.
Cheers, Kaye Geoff
--
Kaye Stott and Geoff Prince
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.omninet.net.au/~kg/
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml
Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml
Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
