Backup (NTBackup) limits me to a 4gb file and I get an error???? - PS0006.jpg (0/1)

[NeedleDick]

It's been driving me crazy. I want to backup my whole 'C' drive, but
it only limits me go 4gb? Please see error message.

NeedleDick

 

[Richard Urban]

Direct your backup to a drive/partition that is formatted NTFS. You are
limited by the 4 gig barrier inherent in fat32 partitions.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[NeedleDick]

Thanks. It does not mention the 4gb limit in the MS Knowledge Base.

 

[zizz]

I use WinBackup from LIUtilities to backup 30gb+ in both
NTFS and Fat32. It creates multiple files of approx 3.9g
in either case. It will also also allow you to mix them.
I'm running 3 HDD's on this machine,
one IDE Fat32, one IDE NTFS, one SATA NTFS, and have had
no evident conflicts.
zizz
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[Alex Nichol]

It's been driving me crazy. I want to backup my whole 'C' drive, but
it only limits me go 4gb?

A 32 bit computer word is limited to 2^^32 - which is just enough to
count to 4G bytes. For that reason it is the limit of file size on a
FAT 32 system, and Backup will want to ensure it can make its files on
either system - apart from which it was probably written with a 32 bit
word for the byte count anyway. It is not at all a recent program, and
even five years back a 4G drive was enormous, and the limit of a typical
tape was about 2