[Ham-Mac] OSX 10.5 SuperDuper and ACL errors

[Rick Prather]

I certainly wouldn't try SD until Dave says it's ready.

With TM I am not worried about using it for at least a month anyway.

I plan to use TM primarily and then once a month clone my iMac to  
another drive to be stored off site.

Remember TM will keep many versions of a file whereas SD will only  
take a snapshot in time.

Yes, I have Repaired Permissions several times and it has not yet had  
to make any repairs.

Rick
K6LE

On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Dick Kriss wrote:

>> But it did work fine and all my apps except SuperDuper work
>> fine. There will be an update for it, but with Time Machine, I don't
>> know if I will be using it again.
>>
>> Slater, VE5OA
>
> Slater VE5OA (and others)
>
> I am not a Time Machine fan so having something like SuperDuper is  
> very
> important to have backup boot drive.  As you noted the SuperDuper  
> web page
> indicates they have a new Mac OSX 10.5 version prepared but are not  
> ready to
> release it at this time.
>
> FYI, I experienced a SuperDuper failure with a RED note saying it  
> failed to
> copy ACLs.  If try to repair your permissions using the 10.5 Disk  
> Utility,
> it may come back with all kinds of “ACL found but not expected  on...”
> errors.  I don’t think the Disk Utility cannot repair these Access  
> Control
> List errors.
>
> Once I cleared the ACL errors (that was not easy - see below ) and  
> the OSX
> Disk Utility said everything was okay,  the current version of  
> SuperDuper
> did its thing and I was able to boot from the cloned Leopard  
> SuperDuper
> backup drive.
>
> Another Mac user sent me a note saying he used the utility Mac Pilot
> <http://www.koingosw.com/products/macpilot.php> to clear his 10.5 ACL
> errors.  I download Mac Pilot and went to the "Tools" icon in the  
> menu bar,
> selected the "Disk & Files" and then clicked on the button that says  
> "Wipe
> Access Control List Data."  Mac Pilot did its thing for over an hour  
> but it
> worked. Be WARNED another user points out that wiping out the ACLs  
> could
> defeat a security feature in Leopard.
>
> Apple has been totally silent on the ACL issue.  I got tired of  
> waiting on
> Apple to do something, so I used the utility and it worked great.  
> Apple and
> the entire team of 10.5 beta testers should be ashamed of releasing  
> Leopard
> with the ACL permissions mess.  I do not recall any permission issues
> inTiger.
>
> The only other issue I have found is with my hp printer software,  
> but hp
> stuff seems to be hosed on every new Mac release.  FYI, the printer  
> failed
> because it detected and could not deal with an ACL error.
>
> Sorry about the long winded shaggy dog story.  Have you checked your
> OSX 10.5.0 permissions?
>
> 73 Dick AA5VU
>
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