NTbackup fails disk-to-disk backup at 4GB limit

[NetCreature]

While my tape drive is on the blink I have been trying to back up to
another share on another network drive.

All works fine until 4 GB of data is transferred. There was an error
message ("The media is full..." (it's not)) which I 'solved' by
converting the target drive to NTFS. Now there is no message - the
server just crashes!
The target has (you guessed it) a 4GB .BKF file on it.

I appreciate that I could work around it by backing up in <4GB chunks
but that is an error-prone solution.

Any idea what to do next, apart from get the tape fixed?

NetCreature
"...my Humanity has been sucked from me!"

 

[Steve]

Why not trying an external HDD as the backup target?

 

[Al Dykes]

Why not trying an external HDD as the backup target?

This sounds like a business LAN. Assuming you've got 100MB ethernet
you can mount a C drive with enough free space on a desktop machine
and backup over the LAN.

If your server crashes consistantly you've got a problem unrelated to
ntbackup.

Have you looked in Event Viewer?

 

[NetCreature]

Steve
I'm looking into an external (or caddied) HDD.

Al
This is what is, in effect, happening. The Win 2000 server is
ntbackup-ing to another NTFS box across a 100Mb line.

Has anyone actually succeeded backing up >4GB of data via ntbackup to
another HDD? I'm wondering if the prog is too old to do this sort of
thing...

Does anyone have any experience of replacing tape with external
drives? The cost seems to be lower and I suspect the reliability is
higher too. Had bad frights with tape :-(.

Thanks for responding!

NetCreature

 

[Al Dykes]

Steve
I'm looking into an external (or caddied) HDD.

Al
This is what is, in effect, happening. The Win 2000 server is
ntbackup-ing to another NTFS box across a 100Mb line.

Has anyone actually succeeded backing up >4GB of data via ntbackup to
another HDD? I'm wondering if the prog is too old to do this sort of
thing...

Does anyone have any experience of replacing tape with external
drives? The cost seems to be lower and I suspect the reliability is
higher too. Had bad frights with tape :-(.

Thanks for responding!

NetCreature

have you looked in event viewer?

Is the caddied disk IDE or USB (I don't approve of USB)

Try making a test file on your server thats bigger that 4GB and then
doing an XCOPY.

tell us what happened.