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#1
Espionage 2 / Re: 'Endless' Network Backup
December 23, 2010, 11:08:37 AM
Just to confirm that I too am again getting this problem after upgrading the Time Capsule firmware.  As using the Time Capsule was my only workaround to the exact same problem with other networked drives, that now leaves me without any solution at all for backing up over my network. :(

Edit: looks like it's a bug with AFP that Apple need to fix: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... &tstart=75. Mounting the network drives via SMB solves the problem.
#2
Espionage 2 / Re: 'Endless' Network Backup
September 11, 2010, 12:12:04 PM
Thanks for the reply Greg. Interestingly I also use ChronoSync every day to sync with the same network drive. I believe that uses rsync too? Strange how it should work but this doesn't.

Anyway, I have a good workaround, as described, so no harm done and I'm finding Espionage a really fantastic tool... Wish I had discovered it years ago!  I nearly overlooked it as I didn't see what advantage it could offer over me manually managing my encrypted disk images, but I'm totally sold. Now just to decide whether to buy it outright or as a part of the MacUpdate bundle.  :)
#3
Espionage 2 / Re: 'Endless' Network Backup
September 11, 2010, 05:22:46 AM
Just as an additional bit of info... I've just tried backing up to my networked Time Capsule, and to a USB drive connected to the Time Capsule and it works fine on both. That probably solves my problem, as this can be accessed for the overnight backup to the cloud, but I'd still be interested in why I'm getting the odd behaviour with the other networked drives.
#4
Espionage 2 / 'Endless' Network Backup
September 10, 2010, 03:22:50 PM
I've recently been testing Espionage, and the way it manages encrypted disk images seems ideal for my requirements. However, I've encountered an issue with the built-in backup facility.  

Having set up all my encrypted folder today, I attempted to run my first backup. The backup was to a networked drive, connected via AFP.  The local machine's OS in OS X 10.6.4 and the remote (on an internal network, via gigabit ethernet) machine's OS is 10.5.8.

I left the backup running for a couple of hours, and when I came back noticed that Espionage was still attempting to backup the first folder.  I was a bit surprised, as although it's a reasonably large folder (approx 1GB) I didn't expect it to take that long. Checking the backup folder on the networked drive I noticed well over 100,000 zero kb sparse bundle files had been created and this was still increasing very quickly! I stopped the backup by restarting my machine and tried a much smaller folder, but had exactly the same issue - within minutes there were several thousand zero kb files.

As a test, I created a new folder and placed a single 300kb file inside it and tried backing it up to the network drive. Again, within a couple of minutes I had over 7,000 zero kb files in the destination folder.

Wondering whether it was the fact it was a networked drive causing the issue, I attempted to backup to a local folder instead. The backup completed successfully within seconds.

So it seems that Espionage doesn't like my network! Can you advise if there might be something I'm doing incorrectly that could fix this issue? This is pretty key for me, as the networked machine backs up to the cloud overnight, so is an important element of my backup strategy.

Thanks in advance! :)