System Tools - Back Up Wizard

[Jan Groshan]

Don't know if this is the right group to post this question, but here goes
anyway.....
(using Windows XP Pro)
I have scheduled backups to my 80 gig Iomega external hard drive of my My
Documents folder (1.36 gig), Favorites (1.2 meg), Desktop (150 meg) and
Cookies (?). However, when the backup runs it generates an error that says:
"You have run out of space or the backup file .bkf is too large for this
disk. If this disk is formatted with FAT32, the maximum possible size for
the backup file is lmited to 4 GB. Backup operation will stop."


Since the files/folders I'm backing up don't total anywhere near 4 gig, and
I have 60 gig of available memory on the drive, I don't understand why the
backup utility isn't working.


The log entry for the failed backup reads:

Log Report:



Backup Status

Operation: Backup

Active backup destination: File

Media name: "Daily Backup.bkf created 1/26/2008 at 4:32 PM"



Backup (via shadow copy) of "C: "

Backup set #2 on media #1

Backup description: "Set created 1/26/2008 at 4:32 PM"

Media name: "Daily Backup.bkf created 1/26/2008 at 3:23 AM"



Backup Type: Normal



Backup started on 1/26/2008 at 4:33 PM.

End of Media encountered while backing up to non-removable media.

The operation was ended.

Backup completed on 1/26/2008 at 7:03 PM.

Directories: 2033

Files: 35124

Bytes: 1,840,933,016

Time: 5 minutes and 45 seconds



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The operation did not successfully complete.



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[Mark Dormer]

How much free space is there on the C: drive.
It might be having trouble doing the shadow copy.

Regards
Mark Dormer

 

[Jan Groshan]

There's 446 GB available on the C drive !

How much free space is there on the C: drive.
It might be having trouble doing the shadow copy.

Regards
Mark Dormer

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Don't know if this is the right group to post this question, but
here goes anyway.....

(using Windows XP Pro)

I have scheduled backups to my 80 gig Iomega external hard drive of
my My Documents folder (1.36 gig), Favorites (1.2 meg), Desktop
(150 meg) and Cookies (?). However, when the backup runs it
generates an error that says:

"You have run out of space or the backup file .bkf is too large for this
disk. If this disk is formatted with FAT32, the maximum possible size
for the backup file is lmited to 4 GB. Backup operation will stop."
Since the files/folders I'm backing up don't total anywhere near 4
gig, and I have 60 gig of available memory on the drive, I don't
understand why the backup utility isn't working.

The log entry for the failed backup reads:

Log Report:
Backup Status

Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "Daily Backup.bkf created 1/26/2008 at 4:32 PM"
Backup (via shadow copy) of "C: "
Backup set #2 on media #1
Backup description: "Set created 1/26/2008 at 4:32 PM"
Media name: "Daily Backup.bkf created 1/26/2008 at 3:23 AM"
Backup Type: Normal
Backup started on 1/26/2008 at 4:33 PM.
End of Media encountered while backing up to non-removable media.

The operation was ended.

Backup completed on 1/26/2008 at 7:03 PM.

Directories: 2033
Files: 35124
Bytes: 1,840,933,016
Time: 5 minutes and 45 seconds
The operation did not successfully complete.

What happens if you just convert or format the external drive NTFS?

 

[Jan Groshan]

Not so sure I want to reformat the external drive. I also do manual backups
to it and I'm not sure how that would affect my ability to save manually
backed-up files and restore them if gawd forbid I have a hard drive crash.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Not so sure I want to reformat the external drive. I also do manual
backups to it and I'm not sure how that would affect my ability to
save manually backed-up files and restore them if gawd forbid I
have a hard drive crash.

Is the drive used almost exclusively by machines that can read/write NTFS
(Windows 200/XP/2003/Vista/etc?)

 

[Jan Groshan]

The drive is used exclusively by an Windows XP Pro computer

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Not so sure I want to reformat the external drive. I also do
manual backups to it and I'm not sure how that would affect my
ability to save manually backed-up files and restore them if gawd
forbid I have a hard drive crash.

Is the drive used almost exclusively by machines that can
read/write NTFS (Windows 200/XP/2003/Vista/etc?)

The drive is used exclusively by an Windows XP Pro computer

Then there is no issue.

Convert it (open a command prompt and type: convert /?) to NTFS and see if
that relieves the stress. ;-)

 

[Jan Groshan]

Thanks.

Then there is no issue.

Convert it (open a command prompt and type: convert /?) to NTFS and see if
that relieves the stress. ;-)