Sorry to hear about your picture loss. No hard copys?

Suggestions are HIGHLY appreciated !

Marc

I've just figured out that Backup left about 24GB of essentially invisible volumes on my hard drive that I guess were mirrors of backups I had instructed it to put on my iPod. I dunno if this is an idiosyncrasy of the iPod or of Backup, but I figure it's a Backup thing given how it's wired to cram up any destination disk. I feel like a total dumba** that it took me months to figure out that my diminishing hard drive space was due to Backup and not to me overloading it. Of course, I've already purged tons of music files -- thanks Apple!

What helped me find and delete those old volumes was an application called Disk Inventory X that shows you a graphic representation of what's on your hard drive, plus it shows you a file tree that's ranked by size. This is how I finally figured it out, because the Volumes folder wasn't visible in the Finder window for the Hard Drive, yet by doing the math on the folders I could see, I knew there was something not right.

Once in Disk Inventory X, I was able to click on the offending volumes, use the "Reveal in Finder" menu option, and get to the folders and delete them.

So I get to hang back before splurging on an external drive... at which point I'll be using Carbon Copy or Super Duper.

Since my message above nine months ago (where did that nine months go?!), I have just got .Mac a few days ago and so far I have not been able to backup successfully to my iDisk even once, not even a small 23MB backup. I'll still use Backup, because the saved backup profiles feature is brilliant, but will have to save to a USB memory stick for essential regular backups and set Time Machine onto my USB drive for the less frequent full drive backup. I haven't tried Time Machine yet though, I might continue using the free iBackup which has backed up and restored reliably a few times.

Sue? It was probably a joke. Haha. I know: bad humor. It makes 1 person laugh (... me).

I create an original "full" backup of my "Movies" folder using Backup and put it on DVD. It had about 4 movies.

A month or so later, I wanted to free up space, don't really watch movies very much anyway, so created a new backup ( obviously incremental ) of the same folder using the same backup task. It put apparently about 15 movies I had downloaded, etc.

Now I'd like to recover them, BUT have lost the original full backup! My bad, I know, but anyway, how do I get those movies that were added incrementally later. I can't get Backup to do anything. It just keeps asking for the original disk before it tries to get a movies I select that was backed up later!

How can I open the backup image and extract the files by hand?

Thanks in advance.

jwooten@shoulderscorp.com

I had been backing up my Clientèle HD daily, in the event I should ever need to restore. Sure enough, the time came. My startup (primary) disk failed, so during the process of erasing/reinstalling, I decided to swap out and use my primary for my Clientèle; and a newer/larger HD for my startup and primary drive.

During the process, I changed my username for my admin account on my startup disk. So, I'm ready to restore my Clientèle HD, and launch Backup... only to find there is NO RESTORE OPTION! Yellin' at Apple, not y'all. Why's it greyed out?? I don't get it?? And like Erik mentioned, I have 3 FULL backups on my idisk + 15 or more incremental backups! What a frickin' mess! The good thing is, I have everything backed up to Zip Disks, so I'm safe. However, I still have no good working Backup App. I like how Backup compresses the backed up files, but that's it. I need to have a "real" backup of my HD's so in the event I run into probs, I can pop it in and get right back to work.

I guess I'll have to get 2 external drives and keep my HDs backed up daily. Anyone know of a good app out there today that can do this automatically (scheduled), and one that will find and replace only updated/changed files?

Thanks!
Tracy
aka. MacMajor