Backup replied by kalle @ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:15:50 -0000

kalle — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:15:50 -0000

Hi. Knox can backup to most volumes you mount and access through the Finder, but it will only use the faster incremental backup feature if the destination volume is local (a regular drive connected to your Mac) and formatted as Mac OS Extended (HFS+). Backing up large vaults through slow connections is, well, slow at the moment unfortunately.

Backup replied by FEA @ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:22:55 -0000

FEA — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:22:55 -0000

I came to the Knox website because I am looking for a encrypted backup software that could work with a distant server. I read the Q&A and saw the video. The vault aspect of it is well known to me since I am regularly using the Disk Utility. But I am still in the blue regarding the backup capabilities of Knox. Could any one enlight me, please?

Disk appears full replied by kalle @ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:49:58 -0000

kalle — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:49:58 -0000

Hi. Is the vault of the older sparse image (as opposed to sparse bundle) format? You can check this by right/ctrl-clicking the vault file and checking the extension. These kinds of disk images seem to suffer from a bug where filling it to the brim will cause such thing you describe to happen. The workaround is to perform compaction on the vault file, which will restore the ability to write to it.

Disk appears full replied by duncanriach @ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:08:47 -0000

duncanriach — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:08:47 -0000

I have an external disk configured as an expanding full-disk vault to backup to. When I “get info” for the open vault, it says that it is completely full. When I run OnmiDiskSweeper on it, I find that there are files taking up only 1/5 of the space. Why is this vault looking completely full and preventing me from writing more to it?

Unable to open vault on portable drive replied by kalle @ Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:15:33 -0000

kalle — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:15:33 -0000

Hi. Crashes can have this effect, more often with the older sparse image format on Tiger. If Disk Utility can’t perform actions on it, it’s likely gone for good, I’m afraid.

Knox: Serving Apache from a Knox Vault replied by kalle @ Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:10:49 -0000

kalle — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:10:49 -0000

Hi. The ideal setup would be to run the web server as the user you’re logged in as and point the web server’s root to a directory inside the vault. This way no permissions have to be fiddled with.

Is Pyro Dead? posted by ckeck @ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:13:07 -0000

ckeck — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:13:07 -0000

No updates or much activity in over a year. Is this project dead?

Unable to open vault on portable drive replied by dabaldr @ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:30:31 -0000

dabaldr — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:30:31 -0000

I am running Knox 1.6.3 on Tiger. Just created on new vault on an portable drive. While transferring a file into the vault the system froze and had to re-boot. Now I cannot open the vault – it gives the error message “no mountable file systems” after inputting the password. Tried using the Disk Utility to repair the vault, but that also returned an error message that the volume could not be repaired because of an error. Any suggestions on how to fix this??

Knox: Serving Apache from a Knox Vault replied by nikz @ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:54:20 -0000

nikz — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:54:20 -0000

Hi,

I’m keeping all of my web-development code in a Knox vault, and I’m trying to get Apache to serve from some directories in the vault.

If I move the folders out of the Knox vault and change the Vhost, then everything works like a charm, so I don’t think it’s my Apache config.

Whenever I access the vhost, and the files are inside the Knox vault, I get 403 – Forbidden from Apache. (Even after “chmod -R 777 .”)

If it’s not possible to do this, then that’s cool – but it would be good to know one way or the other :)

Cheers,

Nik

Pyro notification beeps stopped working replied by tikaro @ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:59:05 -0000

tikaro — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:59:05 -0000

Same here. I miss those badge notifications! Replying just so I’ll see activity. Thanks!

Pyro notification beeps stopped working replied by eagleapex @ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:48:16 -0000

eagleapex — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:48:16 -0000

Ditto. No badge notification, no beeps

Snow Leopard Compatibility replied by stormtrooper @ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:08:37 -0000

stormtrooper — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:08:37 -0000

hey thanks.. that seems to fix the issue and i can get back into all my vaults. don’t know why i didnt think of that first. Thanks again.

Snow Leopard Compatibility replied by kalle @ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:26:58 -0000

kalle — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:26:58 -0000

Hi all,

Knox 1.6.3 has been running without issues on our GM seeds.

Knox is not working for me on SL. App refuses to launch in 10.6 …

Does trashing your preferences file Library/Preferences/com.knoxformac.knox.plist while Knox is not running and launching it afresh help at all?

Snow Leopard Compatibility replied by stormtrooper @ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:39:30 -0000

stormtrooper — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:39:30 -0000

Knox is not working for me on SL. App refuses to launch in 10.6

31/08/2009 20:14:22 com.apple.loginwindow⁷² Deleted: /Users/speedracer4/Library/Caches/com.knoxformac.knox
31/08/2009 20:14:28 Knox²⁵⁵ ERROR! Couldn’t get process info for pid 196
31/08/2009 20:14:33 Knox²⁵⁵ : unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6358f0
31/08/2009 20:14:33 Knox²⁵⁵ Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: ‘[NSCFDictionary localDiskBackupPath]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6358f0’ invoked observer method: ‘* ’ observer: 0x635850 notification name: ‘NSWorkspaceDidMountNotification’
31/08/2009 20:24:46 Knox¹³⁷ ERROR! Couldn’t get process info for pid 128
31/08/2009 23:00:22 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501⁹³ ([0x0-0x5d05d].com.knoxformac.knox⁴⁹⁶) Exited with exit code: 255
31/08/2009 23:56:56 Knox¹³⁹ -[NSCFDictionary localDiskBackupPath]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x52d470
31/08/2009 23:56:56 Knox¹³⁹ Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: ‘[NSCFDictionary localDiskBackupPath]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x52d470’ invoked observer method: ‘* -[KVaultManager _diskMounted:]’ observer: 0x52d3d0 notification name: ‘NSWorkspaceDidMountNotification’

Snow Leopard Compatibility replied by jaalex @ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:26:32 -0000

jaalex — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:26:32 -0000

It seems to be working just fine for me. I just upgraded about 3 hours ago.

Snow Leopard Compatibility replied by pmpknetr21 @ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:49:39 -0000

pmpknetr21 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:49:39 -0000

I listed this in the search box above but nothing came up, so I hope this question is redundant….

Is Knox compatible with 10.6 Snow Leopard?

Thanks.

Back up problem replied by jpbeard @ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:15:02 -0000

jpbeard — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:15:02 -0000

I have no problem copying other files and folders to the designated backup drive. Also, one of my Knox vaults will backup without a problem to the same drive. I am only having this problem with one vault.

Can't search contents within word & text files anymore replied by skafoid @ Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:38:32 -0000

skafoid — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:38:32 -0000

And I’m just going to answer my own question… Found under the knox preference’s menu an option to click on the folder under the spotlight icon.

Can't search contents within word & text files anymore replied by skafoid @ Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:23:55 -0000

skafoid — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:23:55 -0000

I used to be able to search for the actual contents of word and texts files within all my knox vault folders. But ever since I upgraded to the new version 1.6.3 on my new Macbook Pro running OS 10.5.8 the mac search engine can’t find any of the words I’m searching for. But it does find all the words if they’re not in a knox vault. Is there a knox setting I don’t know about or is this a bug? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Need clarification on strategies for vault backup replied by kalle @ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:14:46 -0000

kalle — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:14:46 -0000

Hi,

– what kind of effect does a momentarily read-only flag have on applications that are accessing files on a mounted (encrypted sparse bundle) image? Is backup just delayed until all writing has been completed so the read-only flag can be set?

Telling the system to mount the vault as read-only will cause any existing read/write operations on the volume to fail and it is then up to the individual applications to handle this correctly. Personally I haven’t found this to be an issue wrt data integrity, with a slew of applications (TextMate, VoodooPad, PostgreSQL, ...) running and accessing the volume.

– shall we just make sure that images are simply unmounted for any sort of backup to happen? So an image may just skip 1 or more scheduled backups because it was open.

Yes, this would be the best way to ensure that nothing is out of wack on the other side.

Self-Destruct replied by kalle @ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:57:06 -0000

kalle — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:57:06 -0000

Not at this moment, no.

Need clarification on strategies for vault backup replied by luca @ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:25:34 -0000

luca — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:25:34 -0000

Hello,

I discovered your program recently and would like to ask a couple questions before buying it.

I’m currently trying to figure out what’s the best strategy to secure my personal data on my laptop and at the same time have a smooth backup solution. I initially thought about using multiple encrypted sparse bundle images for separately storing emails, personal documents, etc.. and letting Time Machine take care of backing up my system. As I understand it, I see one complication with that system: what does Time Machine do when the encrypted sparse bundle images are open (mounted)? What happens if an application (i.e. Mail.app or Pages) is willing to write data on the the image, when TM starts?

I stumbled on Knox and it seems it can help in managing all the images I have.

By reading your forums I discovered that: 1) Time Machine does not (or rather, shall not) backup open images, 2) Knox has an option to momentarily set as ready-only a vault it is starting to backup.

At this point I’m a little puzzled as to what is the best way to deal with images/vaults and backups. It appears to me the best way would be to unmount them, but this is not very flexible / practical (especially for images storing emails… I shall just close Mail.app from time to time). Knox seems smarter thanks to the temporary read-only flag, but I’m unsure what happens to Applications currently accessing the image.

My questions are:

– what kind of effect does a momentarily read-only flag have on applications that are accessing files on a mounted (encrypted sparse bundle) image? Is backup just delayed until all writing has been completed so the read-only flag can be set?

– shall we just make sure that images are simply unmounted for any sort of backup to happen? So an image may just skip 1 or more scheduled backups because it was open.

Hope I’ve not been too messy and that you can provide some useful insight :-)
Thanks!
Best regards.

Time Machine Issues replied by pfml07 @ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:30:00 -0000

pfml07 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:30:00 -0000

I have tried it in all the possible ways we would use it and unfortunately still no luck

Slow Knox Vault Menu posted by macden05 @ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:59:05 -0000

macden05 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:59:05 -0000

Recently It seems it is taking an exceptionally long time for Knox do display my vaults in the Knox menubar dropdown menu after startup.

For about 2 minutes I get the spinning beachball when I try and access the menu. There are only 7 vaults and none of them are very large.

My computer is a iMac g5 (2GHz/1.5GB SDRAM) running OS 10.4.11.

Self-Destruct replied by Slantsixx @ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:27:20 -0000

Slantsixx — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:27:20 -0000

For those of us that need an extra layer of security, is there a way to add a feature that the vault would quickly self-destruct after a user-defined number of incorrect password attempts? Not just an auto-delete which could be recovered, but a true self-destruct so that the data is corrupt beyond repair?

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