[magoo66]

Hi. I'm trying to do a pre-Lion backup. I do have a superduper image on my NAS, but I'm away from the NAS for a couple months. I last backed-up a couple weeks ago. Two things have changed since that backup: new update to SD, and I'm using a different harddrive (portable seagate usb).

I've tried doing a backup several times now, and I keep getting the same type of error. It kept getting held up at a certain picture file in iPhoto. I ran through the steps in the troubleshoot section of the user guide. I've deleted photos, restarted my computer several times, but I keep getting these I/O errors. These are old albums that I have not touched in some time, and had no trouble being backed up before today. At this point, I'm wondering (even hoping, perhaps) if my external harddrive is to blame, or is my iPhoto crapping out? Thanks!

Partial error log:

| 09:02:52 PM | Info | /.Spotlight-V100
| 09:02:52 PM | Info | Preserving /.Spotlight-V100
| 09:02:52 PM | Info | /Users
| 09:04:13 PM | Info | WARNING: Caught I/O exception(5): Input/output error
| 09:04:13 PM | Info | WARNING: Source: /Users/Mike/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2009/Random Portsmouth/IMG_2604.JPG, lstat(): 0
| 09:04:13 PM | Info | WARNING: Target: /Volumes/Seagate/Users/Mike/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2009/Random Portsmouth/IMG_2604.JPG, lstat(): -1
| 09:04:13 PM | Info | Attempting to copy file using copyfile().
| 09:04:28 PM | Info | Attempting to copy file using ditto.
| 09:04:41 PM | Error | ditto: /Users/Mike/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2009/Random Portsmouth/./IMG_2604.JPG: Input/output error