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Old 02-05-2023, 01:57 PM
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Schedules copies have intermittent problem

I have an issue with my scheduled copies. It sounds a lot like this post from Shirt Pocket Watch on Jan 12:

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v3.7.3 was released to correct two rare problems: both of which had to do with launching scheduled copies.

The first was a weird race condition that caused occasional crashes right at launch, but only with scheduled/scripted copies launched without loading settings. It was strange, we couldn't reproduce it internally, but it happened to a few users and we think we've run it down.
I think my setup is experiencing the "weird race condition" described above.

The instability began on Jan 23 when I updated from SuperDuper! Version 3.7 (126-0b1cb57) to SuperDuper! Version 3.7.5 (131-4cb66b9). At that time I was still using an M1 Mac-mini running macOS Ventura 13.1. Since then I've moved to an M2 Pro Mac mini running macOS Ventura 13.2 and the problem persists.

I've tried a couple of things to try to get to the bottom of it. So far I haven't found a solution.

- recreated scheduled copies
- uninstalled/reinstalled SuperDuper and all of its component pieces

Each time I test the setup, with an artificial scheduled copy time it works but, when I set the real scheduled time, which occurs in the middle of the night, I find that the copy was not successful when I check the following morning...occasionally.

I've watched the issue occur a couple of times:

- SD launches
- the destination/target disk mounts
- the copy operation crashes/does not successfully start
- SD quits
- the destination/target disk does NOT unmount (as it should)

I'd like to fallback to a previous version to see if this issue follows the version but, if anyone has a different suggestion I'm all ears.
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Old 02-05-2023, 03:07 PM
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If a copy is crashing, do you get a log? Please send me that via the support email.
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Old 02-05-2023, 03:23 PM
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I'll send the log the next time it happens.
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Old 03-09-2023, 06:04 PM
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I've had a similar problem for awhile (I'd say 6 months or more): Every so often (now perhaps once every two weeks, on average), a scheduled copy won't run. There won't be an error message, so there's no log recording this, but if I open SD, I'll sometimes see that the "last copy" wasn't yesterday (I have it run every day around 3:30 AM). An additional problem is that once it doesn't run, it doesn't resume running the next day, and with no error message, it might be a week or more before I see it hasn't been backing up. I've taken to looking every day, but it shouldn't have to be this way. I cure the problem by selecting "Copy Now"; once it copies in this manual way, it will resume running on schedule (until the next time it stops copying). I had hoped the latest update would solve the problem, but unfortunately it hasn't.
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Old 03-09-2023, 08:47 PM
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Remember that we'll notify when we *do* back up, and you can make those sticky. So, you can readily see if something failed.

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