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Old 08-16-2007, 04:06 PM
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Should SD! Automatically unmount image?

Hello,

Based on the discussions here I thought SD! would unmount a disk image after a scheduled backup is complete; however, in my case, it does not unmount.

I am backing up an iMac running 10.4.9 to a sparse disk image on a networked drive. I set SD! to do a smart backup and quit. Then schedule the backup. I unmount the disk image and network drive. When the backup runs, SD! mounts the drive and image, copies, and quits. Shouldn't it unmount the disk image too, or am I misunderstanding something?

I am getting around this right now by tossing in a script after backup that detaches the image:

hdiutil detach "/volumes/Backup"

This works, but I was a bit concerned why SD! didn't detach automatically. Thoughts?


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Old 08-16-2007, 04:32 PM
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Are you pointing at the image file, or the image volume?
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Old 08-16-2007, 04:40 PM
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Image volume. That is, when I set up SD! I mounted the image and pointed SD! to the volume.

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Old 08-16-2007, 04:49 PM
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Right. In that case, we don't unmount it... we only mount/copy/unmount for physical drives or image files that you point us to...
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You should look at this thread for a solution.

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2378

Scripts are up at http://thefragens.com/pub/
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Old 08-22-2007, 03:23 AM
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That is, when I set up SD! I mounted the image and pointed SD! to the volume.

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Right. In that case, we don't unmount it... we only mount/copy/unmount for physical drives or image files that you point us to...
1) How can one mount an image BEFORE the first backup has been made as it doesn't exist yet?

2) And, how can SD be pointed to an image doesn't yet exist?

3) With no existing image to mount, SD must be the one who creates/mounts one it writes to. So why can't SD unmount what it creates/mounts?

4) What happens if an image is not unmounted?
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There's a difference between image and host drive. You can't mount an image before it exists, of course. But you can point us at the location where the image is to be stored.

SD! does unmount when it creates/mounts.

If an image is not unmounted, it remains on your desktop. If you were to crash, it wouldn't be properly unmounted, of course.
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