error -43

[deckerdesign]

I have created a back-up script which performs a routine back-up of our mac Xserve. about 3 weeks ago the back-up began failing due to a -43 error.

 

Short of getting a technician to perform maintenance on our server I am going to attempt to back-up each directory individually to isolate the -43 error.

 

Does this seem like a workaround?

[natew]

Hi

 

You probably have a folder on your hard drive that has some non-standard characters in the name. Some Japanese characters are famous for this. Try backing up your hard drive one subvolume (folder) at a time until you find the folder that fails. Then break that folder into subvolumes and repeat the process until you figure out which folder causes the failure.

 

one hint - it is probably in the users folder so start there.

 

Nate

[deckerdesign]

Strangely the problem is only recent. Originally We fixed the problem (on 2 occasions) by running alsoft's disk warrior (a disk utility) on the source drive. Today the -43 error is back. I have now tried to pinpoint the problem by backing up select folders (subvolumes) a fiew at a time. One folder seems to be problomatic, but if I run the script on all but that folder I still get an error in the log (-43, execution incomplete).

 

Here is my question...

I noticed while choosing subvolumes, that there were folders on the source drive that are apparently invisable (Desktop, .Trashes, .FBClockFolder, etc.). Are these getting scanned too? If you choose a subvolume, does it skip these other folders?

[natew]

Hi

 

When you select a subvolume Retrospect scans only the contents of the subvolume - nothing outside of it. That is why it is good for narrowing down where problem files reside.

 

You can select those hidden folders as subvolumes as well

 

Nate