Nora, you're right - SuperDuper is acting a little weird. I got a similar message yesterday: "The last three attempts to check our servers for a new version have failed..." , then "version check failed due to timed out error." I haven't contacted support yet as the message suggested I do, because, knock on wood, the program is still working OK as far as I can tell. My hunch is that SD's failure to work properly for you is a separate matter from the server connection failure.
Have you tried looking at the Discussions section of Shirt Pocket's website? You might find other users posting about problems similar to yours (I looked there but didn't see any mention of server connection failure). Like you I am using SuperDuper for backup and just started using Time Machine this month. Also just started backing up my large photo collection to Flickr (paid $25 or so to get full backup). Jim On Dec 23, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Nora Probasco wrote: > Jim, > > I tried to send it to Shirt Pocket but it would not let me do that. It is > giving me messages that it cannot connect to the server to check for upgrades > also. It seems it has just gone haywire. I am wondering if I should uninstall > it and reinstall it to see if I can clear the problem. What are your > thoughts? I really want to have a 2nd and possible 3rd backup option besides > Time Machine. I do have to say I was very impressed with the system recovery > in Lion and how well Time Machine worked. It was so effortless and I cannot > even tell I installed a new drive. Everything is just the same, except for > the large amount of memory I now have ;-)) > > I am very heavy into genealogy research and have amassed a lot of paper > documents, etc. I am trying to downsize and my goal is to scan everything > into my computer, which is why I wanted the large memory. I have 3 separate > backup hard drives and want to use something different on each one. Right now > I am using Time Machine and Super Duper. I am trying to figure out what to > use on the 3rd drive. > > Nora > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Jim Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Nora, if you launch SuperDuper and then go the Window menu, you find an item > called Show Log. Hit that and you will see a detailed list of every step > SuperDuper took in the most recent backup, and hopefully concluding with the > glitch that caused the failure (may be incomprehensible to regular users). A > button at the bottom lets you "Send to Shirt Pocket." Hope you can get it > resolved. I know I would be bummed if my SuperDuper broke down. > Jim > > On Dec 22, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > > > Well, I got my new hard drive installed and all up to date, but not without > > some trials and tribulations. Super Duper let me down. I could never get it > > to boot up to my hard drive. So after installing the new drive, I booted it > > with the Lion Install Disk I made and restored everything with Time > > Machine. It did not take that long at all. It is working perfectly now. > > > > There was a great youtube video showing exactly what I needed to do to > > install it step by step. It was perfect. The only problem is that when I > > got it all put back together I realized there was a part still sitting on > > the counter. So I took it all apart again and found the piece was the part > > that holds the hard drive in place :-0 So after putting it in, I put it > > all back together again. > > > > Now Super Duper keeps failing when I try to back up the new drive. I was > > having some problems with it before I installed the new hard drive with the > > occasional failure, but now it seems to work okay and then stalls and says > > it failed to backup. Any suggestions? > > > > Nora > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MacGroup mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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