Article:		Automated Backups with Existing Tools
Subject:		Errors
Date:		2004-02-11 07:26:50
From:		jb-
Response to: Errors
It is creating the .dmg properly. HOwever I'm getting these errors hdiutil: attach failed - No such file or directory Validating target..."/Volumes/backup_2004-02-10" is not a volume couldn't validate target - No such file or directory. When I do an ls the file is there but is sill growing in size and I can see the disk writing (creating the empty disk image). If I wait until the image has been created and then comment out the hdiutil create line it seems to work fine (its running now). I could add a SLEEP NNN line but I'm looking for a cleaner way.

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• Errors
  2004-02-11 07:43:45  peterhickman [Reply | View]
  
  
  The error makes sense if the hdiutil -create is still running when it attempts to attach the .dmg. If it was still creating it then it is not formated correctly.
  
  I note that there appears to be a stray pipe '|' character at the end of line 21. Dont know how that got there. Is the pipe in the script you are using?
  
• Errors
  2004-02-11 08:03:43  jb- [Reply | View]
  
  
  Apparently it is a result of the stray pipe. I took it out, changed the 5 to a 20 and the script seems to be running happily. It is taking upwards of five minutes to create the .dmg (70GB on a Firewire 400 drive) - should it be a different format?