Roxio Toast 5 back-up attempt roadblocked

[skiziks]

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First time user of Roxio Toast 5.
Don't know the next step after attempting a burn a back-up on a DVD and I got this message:

"The file 'DSLDAPPluginConfig.clpi' could not be accessed. (Data fork, -5000)"

What is the significance of this file? Why couldn't it be accessed?
 Do I "remove" this file from the folder that I want to burn?
 What do I have to know about files that can't be "accessed?"
 Where is the "hard disc cache" that these folders are copied to during the process of burning?
 Is it necessary to routinely empty that cache folder?

[tacit]

You are trying to back up your system while your system is running. You can't do that with Toast. Many system files are in use while your system is booted; those files can't be accessed by Toast.

The only way you can back up an operating system and get ev erything backed up correctly is to use the program Carbon Copy Cloner, which you can download from versiontracker.com.

[skiziks]

tacit

Geez, this is getting to be a pain.

The Roxio Toast 5 Titanium user manual didn't mention that little fact.

Their support team suggested that I remove that offending file from the burn list.
That it must belong to "root" and that I wasn't permitted to copy it.

I guess nothing is as easy as it's purported to be.

Thanks for the answer to my problem.

I've been posting to numerous other forums for days, and you are the only one that answered me.

Thanks again.

[skiziks]

I went to the CCC site and this is what I found



CCC really just isn't the right tool if you're trying to backup to a CD.  The primary target audience is people that are trying to move stuff from one machine to another, from one hard drive to another, or trying to backup regularly to an external firewire hard drive.
  _________________
Mike Bombich

[Gary S]

CCC will not backup directly to CDs or DVD-R discs, though you can backup to an appropriately sized disk image, then burn the image to disc with Toast or Disk Copy.

From the Bombich site.

[skiziks]

Thanks Gary

Never in my wildest dreams did I think that making a backup DVD would be such a chore.

Now I have to get out my computer "what is this?" book and find out what a "disc image" is.

Somewhere in one of these forums, I read that Apple is no longer the "drag and drop" computer system. What an understatement.

What a difference it is being all alone with these problems compared to my pre-retirement when we could call the "help desk" and a specialist would set everything straight.

[krissel]

QUOTE(skiziks @ Nov 13 2003, 7:48 PM)

What a difference it is being all alone with these problems compared to my pre-retirement when we could call the "help desk" and a specialist would set everything straight.

 That's why TS is here.

 


This site may help with some definitions:

Tech encyclopedia


OSX's complexity may have made the simple "drag and drop" of system related files not as easy but thank goodness many third party apps fill the void.

[rongold]

This particular problem also occurs with Toast 6.0.  The file "DLSPAPPluginConfig.clpi" is located in the Library Folder at root level. In attempt ing to back up the Library Folder to a CD, Toast gave the following error message: "The file "DLSPAPPluginConfig.clpi" could not be accessed (Data FOrk, -500
0). After clicking OK, the following error message appears: "Couldn't com
plete the last command because you don't have the required permissions. (-5
000).

On quitting Toast after ejecting the CD, the CD was no longer usable,
as it aws not recognized after inserting it.

If I used Toast in Simulation Mode and try to copy Library Folder after deleting the file "DSLDAPPluginConfig.clpi",the simulation crashes with the same two error messages, this one relating to file "DSLDAPv3PlugiinConfig.plist". If I delete this file also , the Simulation is carried out without problem. The permissions on these two files, like most System files in the Library Folder are set to Owner=System, Group=Admin.

Many other files within the Library Folder have identical Owner and Group Permissions as the two problem files, but they were copied without any difficulty.

A work-around to avoid deleting the files is to mount a blank dmg volume with DiskCopy large enough to hold the Library Folder and copy the Library Folder to the dmg (I used Tri-Backup 3). The copy-process somehow changes the permissions of the two problem "DSLD…" files from Owner=System, Group=Admin to Owner=me, Group=Staff(me)

My purpose in backing up the Library Folder was prepartion for upgrading to Panther. My normal back-up medium is a LaCie D2 Firewire400 Drive and I wanted an additional independent backup in case Panther eats the Firewire Drive in spite of my following all the precautions (I now mount the drive only for the brief time needed for doing a backup and then leave it unmounted and disconnected).