Hi Barry, I replied to your first email asking if the Seagate was sleeping and waking correctly.
"Does the Seagate drive sleep and then wake when CCC is scheduled to do the daily backup? Sounds like perhaps the Seagate did not wake." CCC is looking for the external drive but not seeing it, which could indicate that the drive is not awake. Have you tried disconnecting the drive and reconnecting just before the incremental backup is due to run? Also you do have the Seagate formatted: GUID Partition Table and Mac OS Extended (Journaled)? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 06/06/2013, at 7:52 AM, Barry Sexstone <[email protected]> wrote: > I am still having problems with my Seagate 2TB external disk my and back up > regime as I mentioned in my email of 3rd June. My usual method is to have > Carbon Copy Cloner run an incremental backup daily. The initial backup runs > OK but 24Hrs later the incremental backup does not run with an error message > saying "Could not find BU" BU being the name I have assigned to the external > disk. The disk then failed to eject when requested saying "cannot eject BU > as a program is using it" I presume this was CCC still trying to find the > disk. I managed to force eject the disk. I have done all the obvious > things, reformatted, run repair disk etc and I noted that when I tried to > reformat initially I had a "could not Unmount" message which I overcame by > clicking on the Unmount button. > > I have tried running a Super Duper backup system and a similar problem > occurred. The initial backup ran with no apparent problem but the > incremental the next day failed with the message "could not establish > ownership of BU" > > Can anyone spread any light on this problem or point me in a suitable > investigative direction? > > Thanks > > Barry -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
