Windows XP Backup limited to only 4 gig

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Brian Heimert

Windows XP Backup limited to only 4 gig

I am only able to back up a file from either network and or local drive the size of 4 gig. It allows the selecting and see's it but only backs up 4 gig. This is going to an external hard disk drive. USB and IEEE 1394 or FireWire drives a 120 GB .

I am able to run multiple job but would really like only one backup job.



Brian Heimert
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Brian Heimert said:
Windows XP Backup limited to only 4 gig

I am only able to back up a file from either network and or local drive
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the size of 4 gig. It allows the selecting and see's it but only backs up 4
gig. This is going to an external hard disk drive. USB and IEEE 1394 or
FireWire drives a 120 GB .
I am able to run multiple job but would really like only one backup job.
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Is the external drive formatted NTFS?
 
Brian said:
Windows XP Backup limited to only 4 gig

I am only able to back up a file from either network and or local drive the size of 4 gig. It allows the selecting and see's it but only backs up 4 gig. This is going to an external hard disk drive. USB and IEEE 1394 or FireWire drives a 120 GB .

I am able to run multiple job but would really like only one backup job.



Brian Heimert
System Administrator
(602) 744-6534
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Brian

Change the settings on your backup software from creating
the backup to a FILE to creating a backup to a DISK. I don't
know about XP, but in Win9X there is a 4GB file size maximum.

I backup 2 HDDs with 9 partitions (about 40GB) in one swell
foop to an external USB (slower than hell in usb 1.1). I use
a Maxtor 1 Touch II 300 GB drive partitioned to three 99GB
parts. The Maxtor software is Dantz Retrospect 6. It works
OK. I "backup to disk" and backup all my drives at once with
one set of commands.

Does this help you?
 
Backup is not limited, but what is limited is the file system being used -
sounds like your drive(s) are formatted FAT32, which has a 4GB max limit on
any 1 file. Changing your file system to NTFS will yield a theoretical max
file size of 16EB (exabytes or 2 to the 64th) with a practical
implementation of 16TB (terabytes or 2 to the 44th).

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