Ghost - why spanning files?

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Just used Ghost 2003 to back up an NTFS partition to another NTFS
partition. The result is two files of approx 2G each. Why spanning
two files instead of just one large file?
 
Just used Ghost 2003 to back up an NTFS partition to
another NTFS partition. The result is two files of approx 2G
each. Why spanning two files instead of just one large file?
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It basically does that so the files can always be copied around,
regardless of what sort of partition they might be copied to.

Basically the lowest common denominator that all partition formats support.
 
Will Dormann said:
Rod Speed wrote
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I don't think that it was an intentional
thing, but rather a limitation of DOS.
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Initially, maybe, but the DOS limit obviously
doesnt apply when the partitions are both NTFS.

And Drive Image still does it even when it doesnt drop to DOS anymore.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...58e7f2c9d50aac88882569f1005b08f4?OpenDocument

That clearly says that versions 5.1b and earlier would create
image files bigger than 2GB, so that page is mutually contractory.
But what you describe is a beneficial side-effect of that.
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Looks too deliberately retained for that now.
 
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