Mac drive cloning (was: Re: [WEB4LIB] hosted business software for libraries)

[Cary Gordon]

I highly recommend SuperDuper for Mac drive backup and copying.

Thanks,

Cary

On Oct 9, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Thomas Bennett <bennetttm at APPSTATE.EDU> wrote:

> If you only use WEB access for Google Drive then nothing below has any affect on WEB access only.
> 
> I recently had an issue with Google Drive while upgrading to a larger and SSD drive on my MAC Book, using Carbon Copy Clone [CCC].
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>   Unlike Dropbox and maybe others, Google Drive uses inodes instead of just directory paths which means essentially that you cannot just copy a google drive folder and have it synchronized automatically.  I had to (important) rename the original Google Drive folder and then reinstall Google Drive and then wait for it to synchronize over 5,000 files over about 24 hours, meaning I also had to go in to the menu and say retry the ones that failed. 
> 
> If you do not rename the original Google Drive folder you get duplicate files like myfile01, myfile01(1)m myfile02, myfile02(1), etc.  because they are different inodes.
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> I expect there might be other cases where this may cause a problem like copying files to another computer and then installing Google Drive.
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> 
> This is from a discussion concerning Google Drive and CCC
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> "Google Drive keeps a database at /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/Google/Drive/snapshot.db. This database records, among other things, the inode number of your Google Drive folder. File and folder inodes are physical addresses that indicate where within the filesystem a particular file resides."
> 
> I am not using Office 365 it is just next door, but Chris is using that office, my office is 366, really. ;-)
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> 
> Tom
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