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Anonymous
September 16, 2004 9:59:10 PM

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Hi all,

Anyone here know if there is a maximum file size for NTBackup when backing
up to a file (BKF)?

thx in advance..

-BB

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Anonymous
September 16, 2004 9:59:11 PM

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:59:10 +0800, "Brian Burgess" <bburgess66@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Anyone here know if there is a maximum file size for NTBackup when backing
>up to a file (BKF)?
>
>thx in advance..
>
>-BB
>
Only that imposed by the file system, so if you backup to a FAT32 drive, about
4GB.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
Anonymous
September 17, 2004 1:10:13 PM

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Backing up to a file on an NTFS filesystem with 16K clusters. The size of
the file is currently 57GB. An incremental is being attempted, but it
stops after 3GB.

So I wonder, is there a 60GB limit?

thx

-BB


"Jerold Schulman" <Jerry@jsiinc.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:59:10 +0800, "Brian Burgess"
<bburgess66@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Anyone here know if there is a maximum file size for NTBackup when
backing
> >up to a file (BKF)?
> >
> >thx in advance..
> >
> >-BB
> >
> Only that imposed by the file system, so if you backup to a FAT32 drive,
about
> 4GB.
>
>
>
> Jerold Schulman
> Windows: General MVP
> JSI, Inc.
> http://www.jsiinc.com
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