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Old 07-18-2006, 11:05 AM
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Please do let me know if you have continued problems. It's possible that, because you cleared caches immediately before the backup, the cache was being recreated as we copied it, which means it was incomplete...

This is always the danger of copying an active volume: it's possible that something will be changing at the exact moment we're copying it. Fortunately, the types of files that do this are nearly always logs and caches, and thus recovery in this rare event is easy to achieve.

If you do the copy when not booted from the volume, these problems won't occur. Of course, that's also far less convenient...
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