Mount Sparseimage - what is happening?

[magoo66]

Is there any way to bypass that? Since I know what this image is, can I set some security parameter to allow easy access?

[dnanian]

Not that I know of.

[cutterfilm]

Within a week, either our Sparse Image backups end up corrupted or Super Duper stops backing up for some other reason. I was so happy to kiss Retrospect goodbye when we first switched, but now it's becoming just as much hassle and work as Retrospect. SuperDuper always seems to time out or give up before our Macs are able to load the proper Sparse Images. Why can't SuperDuper back up to regular disks over a network?

Anybody figure out ways to deal with this stuff that doesn't take daily maintenance? It is just a $25 dollar program. Anyone using something better?

[dnanian]

Corrupted? If the images are becoming corrupted, it sounds like you're having some serious networking problems or other issues. SD! can only work as well as the environment it's running under.

We don't have any "timeouts", though, so I'm not quite sure what you're referring to here...

[mrwiggles]

Dave,

I'm having the same problem as the original poster. I set up SD on a schedule to back up to a sparseimage I have a backup USB drive attached to an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+. I've been thinking that SD has been backing up just fine because I come back to my Mac and see the network volume mounted to the desktop. I had assumed that SD had mounted the Sparseimage on that volume, done it's backup and then unmounted the SI. A look at the log shows me that the last backup was the one I did manually 6 days ago!!!!

I tried doing a manual backup and SD took forever to mount the SI - it must have been 5 minutes or so but it finally came up and then it started the back up. However, SD DOES APPEAR to be timing out on scheduled backups because the log shows that a backup has not been completed.

So I'd love your suggestions as I consider this a bug. I need to schedule backups but SD is clearly 'not waiting' for the SI to mount even though it appears to do so if you do a manual backup.

Thanks,
-Michael

[dnanian]

Well... a manual backup and a scheduled backup are actually exactly the same, so they'd run the same way. We have no timeouts -- do you get an actual error message?

[mrwiggles]

Dave,

No, I don't get any error message when it is on scheduled back up. That is why I didn't know that the backups were not happening until I checked the log.

Today I will schedule a backup when I know I can be watching the computer and see what happens. I know that when doing it manually that it eventually mounts and the backup proceeds. It also leaves the SI mounted to the desktop unlike when doing a scheduled backup where it mounts the network volume but never gets the SI mounted.

-m