Error -43 upon making a duplicate backup to external Firewire

[gopher]

I got an error -43 as it was scanning the folders trying to find out if it could a duplicate backup to my external Firewire hard drive. I have a Cooldrives Initio Firewire case which has never had trouble before, and this is the first time I've attempted making a backup with Mac OS X 10.3.4 and the hard drive is recognized on the desktop. There is plenty of room, I authenticate when I launch Retrospect Express 5.0.238 and the hard drive has ignore privileges turned OFF. Why am I getting an error -43? Do I need to fix the directory of the source or duplicate? Is there some file from 10.3.4 that does not exist in 10.3.3 that would cause this problem? I'm copying all items so I have a bootable full backup like I always have had in the past. I'm doing this via Firewire 800 on my 17" Powerbook 1.33 Ghz.

[gopher]

I tried a few things, repaired the directory, erased the destination, and looked at the log file. Found a single file which I didn't need anymore and deleted it. The next time I attempted a backup I got an error -51 as it was attempting to copy over files, and it told me my duplication backup was incomplete. Looks like I had 120 MB to go.

 

 

 

What's more it always stopped doing the backup before it was finished when I tried again. Progress, but it isn't working the way it used. Never gets to the verification stage. Is this a 10.3.4 problem? The problem appeared to start with 10.3.4. Has any version of Retrospect been tested with 10.3.4?

[natew]

Hi

 

Retrospect 5.0 has not been tested with OSX 10.3 so it is hard to say exactly what is happening. I would download the trial version of Retrospect 6.0 and give it a shot. If you still have trouble then you know there is something on the system or hardware level causing a problem

 

Nate

[gopher]

Thank you. Is the trial version a fully functional version, and just simply only works for X number of days?

 

Will it affect my existing Retrospect installation, or will I have to reinstall it?

 

Oh by the way, I got another -51 error after installing Panther and Retrospect to a separate partition and booting off that separate partition. But then finally got a successful backup while booted off that separate partition after erasing the external hard drive. So it would seem the -43 error is caused by something that 10.3.4 has open that previous operating systems did not. I'm suspecting the first backup failed because of whatever that was that was open didn't get copied over properly and would still not get copied over properly during a backup from initiated by another partition.

[gopher]

After all was said and done I deleted some preferences from the System Libary folder of Retrospect, and was able to backup from 10.3.4 again. Something messy was going on, but now appears to have corrected itself, and Retrospect 5.0.238 works fine with 10.3.4.

[Huntn]

Would Error-43 messages be the result of having other programs like web browsers running in the background while making a backup copy?

 

Here are some of the -43 errors I got on a recent update:

File “com.apple.LaunchServices.6B.csstore”: different creation date/time (set: 6/12/2004 7:51:17, vol: 6/12/2004 9:15:12), path: “MacHD 1/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.6B.csstore”.

File “console.log”: different data size (set: 516, vol: 590), path: “MacHD 1/Library/Logs/Console/dpeck/console.log”.

File “windowserver.log”: different data size (set: 36,666, vol: 37,373), path: “MacHD 1/private/var/log/windowserver.log”.

File “AMUG.index”: different creation date/time (set: 6/12/2004 8:11:31, vol: 6/12/2004 9:11:36), path: “MacHD 1/Users/dpeck/Library/Caches/com.apple.iCal/Indexes/AMUG.index”.

 

Thanks!

-Dave