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/
