Problems automating backups with applescript and crontab

[dnanian]

This is a problem that we're going to resolve in v2.0. At present, the last selected backup volume is prompted for at the start of execution, and if it's not there the script will time out, as you've seen.

You can remove the default destination drive setting from com.blacey.SuperDuper!.plist: the settings you want to delete are "SDSourceVolume" and "SDTargetVolume", and the data blocks...

You can also load different settings at the end of the firewire backup that will point to a volume that's going to be there during automatic execution...