deckerdesign Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deckerdesign Posted October 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted October 29, 2003 Report Share Posted October 29, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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