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Dec-5-2009

Carbonite won’t go away (OSX)

I had Carbonite installed as an online backup solution for a little bit, but ended up uninstalling the trial (via the preference panel) due to a lack of extra funding to throw their way.

I noticed this morning that the cpu kept jumping on my mac, so I popped open the Console and saw this:

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12/5/09 5:33:04 AM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[288]    (com.carbonite.carbonitestatus) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
12/5/09 5:33:14 AM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[288]    (com.carbonite.carbonitestatus[10584]) posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/Carbonite/<a class="linkification-ext" title="Linkification: http://CarboniteStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/CarboniteStatus" href="http://CarboniteStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/CarboniteStatus">CarboniteStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/CarboniteStatus</a>", ...): No such file or directory
12/5/09 5:33:14 AM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[288]    (com.carbonite.carbonitestatus[10584]) Exited with exit code: 1

I searched around online, but couldn’t really find anything that helped. I searched around to see where things were launched from, and found that /Library/LaunchAgents/ had these two plist files in it:

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com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitestatus.plist
com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitealerts.plist

I do know that you need to unload a plist that has been launched, so I typed the following into Terminal

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launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitestatus.plist [enter]
launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitealerts.plist [enter]

You will have to authenticate after each command. After doing that I was able to delete the files and all was well.

I do want to throw in that I much prefer Carbonite over Mozy. Mozy after a bit of time always seemed to just stop working for me. I’d have to re-install and then it would be good for a bit, etc, repeat. The only reason I uninstalled Carbonite was the inability to dish out the extra cash (side effect of the unemployment movement)  meh.

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Comments
  • lenpal
    Hi Critter,

    Thanks for your post above about Carbonite, as well as the helpful tip. I'll pass this along to our engineering team to make sure that the program is unloading the plist automatically as it should (and have them fix it if it isn't).

    Sincerely,

    Len Pallazola
    Manager, Customer Service Systems
    Carbonite, Inc.
  • Cool an da gang! Thanks for reading...
  • chilipepr
    MozyHome works pretty well for me – on both Mac and PC. MozyPro needs a lot work, however – the interface is extremely convoluted and not user friendly at all.

    Use the following link to get 20% more space on a free MozyHome 2 Gb account:

    https://mozy.com/?code=D685JF
  • aaronwest
    I'm betting your first launchctl unload command failed. ;-)
  • Did I type it wrong? I didn't receive an error on either one when I ran them.. why would it kick back?
  • aaronwest
    The code in your post had two statements. The first was "lanuchctl" which is spelled wrong.
  • ha! gotcha.

    Fixed. thanks
  • Roughly how much were you backing up to Mozy? Just curious, 'cuz I've been using Mozy on OS X for about 6 months, and haven't had any issues.

    But now I'm wondering if you were backing up more than me, and if I might run into the issues you described if I start backing up more (oh, there is more to back up... I'm only at around 8GB right now) :)
  • I went back to mozy... just noticed it says 41 gig backed up.. it seems to be doing ok (again) for now.. guess we'll see...
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