Hi again Barry, Do you have "Ignore Ownership On This Dive" selected (ticked) on the Seagate External Drive? File > Get Info
Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 06/06/2013, at 8:15 AM, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > 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>
