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Okay, Mac geeks.


My main task while my co-worker was on vacation was to get her computer to stop doing weird things- mostly lots of freezing up, lots of the mouse freezing for a few seconds. She doesn't work with eight million programs open. We ran disk warrior a few weeks ago and it didn't find any big problems, nor did it fix anything, so the next step was backing it all up, and doing a wipe and reinstall. We're stuck in OS 9.2 until the other coworker gets a new 'puter.
For some reason, our regular retrospect backups aren't working, saying the volume is too large to back up. I don't get that, since the firewire drive we use for the backup has almost 70 gigs free, but whatever.
Yesterday I downloaded Silverkeeper to back it up instead, and thought I'd put the copy on one of our servers. Unfortunately, that doesn't work, 'cause her Mac HD is 7.1 gigs, and the servers have under 5g of room.

So I took the firewire drive from the retrospect system (it's an external hot-swap thingie), with its glorious 69 free gigs, and plugged it straight into K's emac to do a backup that way. The backup started and I left work feeling oh-so clever. This morning, it says the backup is incomplete because the volume is full.
HOW THE HELL DOES 7 gigs become over 70 overnight? What is going wrong? What should I do now?


She comes back on Tuesday, and I will feel like a total asshole if I'm not any farther along with this.

Comments

[magicmarmot.livejournal.com]

Sounds an awful lot like a corrupt file, like the actual file length and the reported length don't match. That could concievably be a copy protection scheme for one of the applications, but it might just be a hosed drive.

Not much help beyond that, I'm afraid.