Ronni Hope all goes well with your appointment. Box was and is now UNticket so I am effectively back to square one.
Barry On 06/06/2013, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > No Barry, DON'T have a tick in this, I only asked IF you did. > > You want Ownership enabled for a bootable backup clone. > "Ignore ownership on this volume" Checking it means to ignore. > > By default an external drive -- when it first gets attached to a system -- > usually has this box checked. This is because Apple anticipated that a user > would bring a drive to a different system, and -- since the files might be > owned by a different user than the one who connected the drive -- they should > make them accessible by default. > > Backups, on the other hand, are different. We're not trying to make the files > "accessible to foreign systems", we're trying to make them exactly the same > as the source. > Without ownership on*(unchecked), that's not possible to do. > > SuperDuper disables this when it does a clone anyway, so should not be a > problem. > > I have to rush to a medical appointment now so won't be available for some > time. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 06/06/2013, at 10:38 AM, Barry Sexstone <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Ronni >> >> Found it thanks. I have now ticked this , is this correct? >> >> Barry >> >> On 06/06/2013, at 10:16 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: >> >>> Hi Barry, >>> I sent my first reply on Monday (3 June) >>> >>> Select (highlight) your Seagate Drive icon on your Desktop >>> Then - Go to File > Get Info >>> At the bottom of that window you will see "Ignore ownership on this volume" >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >>> >>> On 06/06/2013, at 10:05 AM, Barry Sexstone <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Ronni >>>> >>>> Thanks for the emails. For some reason I did not get your first one. >>>> The Seagate is formatted as you say GUID Partition Table and Mac OS >>>> Extended (Journaled). Disconnecting the drive and reconnecting it does >>>> allow the incremental to run. >>>> I am not sure where to find the ignore ownership box you refer to in your >>>> second email. I have look at the disk info by right clicking it on the >>>> desktop but the information box does not show this. Is the file you >>>> refer to the backup file? Info on the disk from utilities shows owners >>>> enabled yes, can turn owners off yes. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Barry >>>> >>>> On 06/06/2013, at 8:00 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote: >>>> >>>> iMac 10,1 >>>> Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz >>>> 12GB RAM >>>> 1.0 TB HD >>>> OS X 10.7.5 >>>> >>>>> I notice my signature block showing my system set up was not appended to >>>>> this, I don,t know why so I will give it here and also try to append it >>>>> iMac 10.1 >>>>> intel core2 Duo 3.06 GHz >>>>> 12 GB RAM >>>>> 1.0 TB HD >>>>> OSX 10.7.5 >>>>> >>>>> Barry >>>>> >>>>> iMac 10,1 >>>>> Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz >>>>> 12GB RAM >>>>> 1.0 TB HD >>>>> OS X 10.7.5 >>>>> >>>>> On 06/06/2013, at 7:52 AM, Barry Sexstone 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> >> >> -- 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> > -- 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>
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