Cloned drive has Database problems

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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

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Really hope someone can talk me through this. 
 
I have recently bought some additional firewire drives and have also notice=
d 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 uni=
versally praised). It worked beautifully, and I have been working from the F=
W drive for two days now while cleaning, optimizing, and testing the interna=
l drive. 
 
This morning that process was finished, so I ran a “smart update&#822=
1; from the FW drive back to the internal. That should adjust the internal t=
o 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 o=
r a backup. Then it wanted to verify the database. The verification turned u=
p 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 m=
ake sure I was not likely to lose messages. I don’t use the calendar &=
#8211; just the email, news, and address book. 
 
Even better, is there a “best” way simply to copy the other dat=
abase to my internal and make it “take”? 
 
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 
 

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Bill
Thu Feb 17 17:24:44 CST 2005

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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.

On 2/17/05 2:40 PM, in article BE3A5D4D.231AB%bill@nospam.net, "Bill
Weylock" <bill@nospam.net> wrote:

> 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

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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 Entoura=
ge made a pass during the cloning, which is more than enough to freak out ev=
en the most stalwart little database. 
 
Just reran the process after logging in with shift key depressed: flawless.=
 
 
 
On 2/17/05 2:40 PM, in article BE3A5D4D.231AB%bill@nospam.net, "Bill W=
eylock" <bill@nospam.net> wrote: 
 
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alk me through this. 
 
I have recently bought some additional firewire drives and have also notice=
d 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 uni=
versally praised). It worked beautifully, and I have been working from the F=
W drive for two days now while cleaning, optimizing, and testing the interna=
l drive. 
 
This morning that process was finished, so I ran a “smart update&#822=
1; from the FW drive back to the internal. That should adjust the internal t=
o 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 o=
r a backup. Then it wanted to verify the database. The verification turned u=
p 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 m=
ake sure I was not likely to lose messages. I don’t use the calendar &=
#8211; just the email, news, and address book. 
 
Even better, is there a “best” way simply to copy the other dat=
abase to my internal and make it “take”? 
 
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 
 
 
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Windows XP Pro SP2 
Office 2003 
 

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