Spurious error -34 turns toasts drive

[benatan]

Greetings friends.

 

Server: OS X Server 10.2.5 running 5.0.238

Client: OS 10.2.4 TiBook running 5.0.540

Device: MaxOptix (/Peak)

 

TiBook gets sick. No worries! Backup files with firewire target mode, format it, install 10.2.1 and get it on the network, upgrade to 10.2.4 (same as it was running before), install client 5.0.540, remember to set it not to sleep, log it into the server, select Friday's snapshot, select all files (retro tells me this will leave 10gig on the target disk) and hit Restore.

 

A little while later t failed, here's the log entry:

 

- 4/14/2003 2:23:28 PM: Restoring from 2003-3…

Can't write file “.DS_Store”, error -34 (volume full), path: “Hindemith/Previous Systems/Previous System 1/Library/Frameworks/StuffIt.framework/.DS_Store”.

Trouble writing files, error -34 (volume full).

4/14/2003 3:33:53 PM: Execution incomplete.

Remaining: 127569 files, 5.5 GB

Completed: 46024 files, 1.3 GB

Performance: 30.1 MB/minute

Duration: 01:10:25 (00:29:04 idle/loading/preparing)

 

This made the machine unable to boot of it's own drive. Booting from the OSX install CD and running Disk Utility showed 15.7 GB available on the volume. I am currently in the process of once again reinstalling Jaguar onto the drive. Oh yeah, I'd turned on "Preserve dates" (because they are USEFUL, and retro shouldn't be wiping them).

 

Is this a Retro bug?

 

Some questions:

-anyone know why this happened or what went wrong? Ideas?

-does anyone have experience booting from an external (firewire) OS X volume and doing a full restore? Installing and OS and then going over the top of it seems very silly, and very very slow.

-why can't Retro figure out how to grab the tape it needs from the autoloader during restores?

 

 

[Mayoff]

I have seen a few reports of this error. Prior to the restore go to Files Chosen and uncheck the .DS_Store file so that it is not restored. This should allow the restore to complete. The operating system will create the missing .DS_Store file, so you don't need to worry about skipping it.