[Gllug] OT - Windows backup problem.

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Thu, August 24, 2006 9:26 am, john levin wrote:
> john gennard wrote:
>> A friend asked how to backup data on a W2000 installation.
>> There is a backup facility, so arrogantly I said it should
>> be easy. Not so, for it seems a fixed 4 Gig has been set as
>> a maximum size drive. The disk to which the backup is intended
>> to go is 14 Gig, but backing up ceases at 4Gig.
>>
>> I know little about Windows, and can find no means of making
>> the whole 14 Gig available.
>>
>> Can anyone assist please.
>>
>> John.
>>
>> P.S. The W2000 installation has a FAT filesystem.
>>
>>
>
> Possibly (I don't have a windows installation at my fingertips) it's
> because Windows Backup saves everything as a single file, and FAT can't
> handle files larger than 4gb.
>
Maybe this is off the wall - but install cygwin on both machines (I am
assumiong the other drive is on another box) and back it all up over ssh
into a tarred archive?

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