Article:		Automated Backups with Existing Tools
Subject:		Errors
Date:		2004-02-11 07:43:45
From:		peterhickman
Response to: Errors
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?

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• 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?