I have been doing backups using multiple copies of critical files around different boxen. I buy my 500GB drive, log in as root on my minimac open the finder winder and right click on harddrive copy then right click on new external drive and click paste. It then tells me that it cant copy all files because of perms. WTF I AM ROOT
df -k
dev/disk0s2 58269208 52322488 5690720 90% /
/dev/disk1s3 488255472 52031696 436223776 11% /Volumes/Untitled
300 mb missing somewhere
uname -a
Darwin bill-oxleys-computer.local 8.11.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
is there some software I am missing? Didnt see any backup stuff in utilities
thanx,
bill

Last login: Sat Jan 31 08:30:15 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
bill-oxleys-computer:~ root# pwd
/var/root
bill-oxleys-computer:~ root# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 1(daemon), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty), 29(certusers), 8(procview), 5(operator), 9(procmod), 80(admin), 20(staff)
bill-oxleys-computer:~ root#

and I was logged in as root

warning some files cannot be copied due to permission settings
let me do a find of both systems then a diff to see what wasnt copied
ta

with the dot files associated with regular files and tar not working as expected. So I thought I should stick with the gui. I can just drop a cpio into cron if that works.