[Gllug] OT - Windows backup problem.

Jack Bertram jack at jbertram.net
Thu Aug 24 08:11:35 UTC 2006


* john gennard <joney at clara.co.uk> [060824 09:09]:
> 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.
> 
> P.S. The W2000 installation has a FAT filesystem.

Is this the FAT 4GB file size limit kicking in?  Does the backup take
place to a single file?

jack
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