{"id":18216,"date":"2017-06-22T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18216"},"modified":"2017-09-19T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:26:18","slug":"resetting-the-volinfo-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/resetting-the-volinfo-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Resetting the volinfo.database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, my SuperDuper backups fail with the error &ldquo;Could not enable permissions for volume __ : please restart your Macintosh&rdquo;. Unfortunately, restarting doesn&rsquo;t usually help. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirt-pocket.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=33797&amp;mode=linear#post33797\">The fix<\/a> is to delete the volume information database:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo rm \/var\/db\/volinfo.database<\/pre>\n<p>The next time SuperDuper tries to enable ownership on the volume, the setting will stick, and SuperDuper will be able to complete the backup.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2017-09-19): I think this fix is built into <a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17468\">SuperDuper 2.9.2<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, my SuperDuper backups fail with the error &ldquo;Could not enable permissions for volume __ : please restart your Macintosh&rdquo;. Unfortunately, restarting doesn&rsquo;t usually help. The fix is to delete the volume information database: sudo rm \/var\/db\/volinfo.database The next time SuperDuper tries to enable ownership on the volume, the setting will stick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,546,30,1381,369],"class_list":["post-18216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-ownership","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-12","tag-superduper"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18896,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216\/revisions\/18896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}