Hi Barry, Does the Seagate drive sleep and then wake when CCC is scheduled to do the daily backup? Sounds like perhaps the Seagate did not wake.
Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 03/06/2013, at 8:06 PM, Barry Sexstone <bjsexst...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > On further investigation (playing?) I have found that I can run the > incremental backup "manually" by opening the scheduled tasks and clicking > "run" but get an error when trying to run automatically at the set time. > > On 03/06/2013, at 7:23 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: > >> Good Evening (or whatever time you read this) >> >> I have recently been given a seagate 2TB external drive which I am >> attempting to use ad my daily backup in addition to a separate drive for >> time Machine. >> >> I have set up Carbon Copy Cloner to do a full backup of my hard drive and >> then do an incremental backup daily. This worked perfectly with my previous >> drive - which failed a few days ago. When I do an initial run of the CCC >> schedule all appears OK and the hard disk is copied to the external disk. >> 24 hrs later the scheduled backup tries to start but I get an error message >> saying an error was found and the backup could not proceed. Regrettably >> while trying to find the problem I have lost the error details but they were >> along the lines of "unable to run the program as an error was detected >> while trying to detect your drive volumes/backup/daily." >> I have tried reformatting the destination drive, this appeared to go OK and >> this initial was once again OK but the incremental failed. >> Any advice? >> >> Barry >> >> >> iMac 10,1 >> Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz >> 12GB RAM >> 1.0 TB HD >> OS X 10.7.5
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