Cloned drive has Database problems

[Bill Weylock]

Really hope someone can talk me through this.

I have recently bought some additional firewire drives and have also noticed
that people have been reporting a lot of trouble with Retrospect.

To be sure that I have a bootable backup I converted a FW drive to a clone
of my main internal drive, using a program called SuperDuper (which seem
universally praised). It worked beautifully, and I have been working from
the FW drive for two days now while cleaning, optimizing, and testing the
internal drive.

This morning that process was finished, so I ran a ³smart update² from the
FW drive back to the internal. That should adjust the internal to be a
perfect clone of the FW.

There was no trouble rebooting with the internal, but I got a dialog asking
me which database I wanted to use ­ offering me the most recent one or a
backup. Then it wanted to verify the database. The verification turned up
problems, and it asked me if I wanted to rebuild.

I said OK, but I aborted about half way through so I could check here and
make sure I was not likely to lose messages. I don¹t use the calendar ­ just
the email, news, and address book.

Even better, is there a ³best² way simply to copy the other database to my
internal and make it ³take²?

Obviously cloning a database is not necessarily a problem because the first
attempt worked flawlessly. But I must have done something wrong the second
time.

Help?

Thanks.


Best,


- Bill




Panther 10.3.6
Office 2004
Windows XP Pro SP2
Office 2003

 

[Bill Weylock]

I plead sleep deprivation (really). Sorry for this silly post.

I remembered shortly after foisting this on the group that I had forgotten
to quit Entourage before I started the cloning process. So of course
Entourage made a pass during the cloning, which is more than enough to freak
out even the most stalwart little database.

Just reran the process after logging in with shift key depressed: flawless.

Really hope someone can talk me through this.

I have recently bought some additional firewire drives and have also noticed
that people have been reporting a lot of trouble with Retrospect.

To be sure that I have a bootable backup I converted a FW drive to a clone of
my main internal drive, using a program called SuperDuper (which seem
universally praised). It worked beautifully, and I have been working from the
FW drive for two days now while cleaning, optimizing, and testing the internal
drive.

This morning that process was finished, so I ran a ³smart update² from the FW
drive back to the internal. That should adjust the internal to be a perfect
clone of the FW.

There was no trouble rebooting with the internal, but I got a dialog asking me
which database I wanted to use ­ offering me the most recent one or a backup.
Then it wanted to verify the database. The verification turned up problems,
and it asked me if I wanted to rebuild.

I said OK, but I aborted about half way through so I could check here and make
sure I was not likely to lose messages. I don¹t use the calendar ­ just the
email, news, and address book.

Even better, is there a ³best² way simply to copy the other database to my
internal and make it ³take²?

Obviously cloning a database is not necessarily a problem because the first
attempt worked flawlessly. But I must have done something wrong the second
time.

Help?

Thanks.


Best,


- Bill




Panther 10.3.6
Office 2004
Windows XP Pro SP2
Office 2003

Panther 10.3.6
Office 2004
Windows XP Pro SP2
Office 2003