Backing up more then 4GB

Hi,

I've purchased an external USB hard drive for back up purposes. However,
when the back up reaches 4GB it fails.

Any idea how I can rectify this problem?


Regards,

Sonars UK

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:42:06 GMT, "Sonars_UK"
<sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote:

>I've purchased an external USB hard drive for back up purposes. However,
>when the back up reaches 4GB it fails.
>
>Any idea how I can rectify this problem?

Your external harddisk is FAT32 formatted. And for good reason:
that makes the drive readable by most systems.
One of FAT32's limitations reads: max filesize = 4 GB.

You should take a moment and contemplate what you are gonna do
with 4GB+ 'backup' files. Loose a single bit anywhere within such
a file and you loose the entire backup :-)

Have your backup program create chuncks of --say-- 675 MB.
That way, they are far more managable. And --if you whish-- you
can burn them on CDR or DVD.

--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

On Oct 11, 11:42 am, "Sonars_UK" <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've purchased an external USB hard drive for back up purposes. However,
> when the back up reaches 4GB it fails.
>
> Any idea how I can rectify this problem?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sonars UK

Just to add a little bit to Gerard's precise statement............
Your alternative is :format your external hdd in NTFS.

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:42:06 GMT, "Sonars_UK"
<sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've purchased an external USB hard drive for back up purposes. However,
>when the back up reaches 4GB it fails.
>
>Any idea how I can rectify this problem?
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Sonars UK
>

More detail is needed.

Filesystem of HDD, and the backup method/program. Some
allow specifying smaller split files instead of one giant
file.

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:32:06 -0700 sandy58 <Aleckie59@aol.com> wrote:
| On Oct 11, 11:42 am, "Sonars_UK" <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com>
| wrote:
|> Hi,
|>
|> I've purchased an external USB hard drive for back up purposes. However,
|> when the back up reaches 4GB it fails.
|>
|> Any idea how I can rectify this problem?
|>
|> Regards,
|>
|> Sonars UK
|
| Just to add a little bit to Gerard's precise statement............
| Your alternative is :format your external hdd in NTFS.

All 8 of my USB hard drives (4x 500GB, 1x 400GB, 3x 160GB) are formatted
with reiserfs. I use rsync to make backups.

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On 12 Oct 2007 01:57:52 GMT, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:32:06 -0700 sandy58 <Aleckie59@aol.com> wrote:
>| On Oct 11, 11:42 am, "Sonars_UK" <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com>

>|> I've purchased an external USB hard drive for back up purposes. However,
>|> when the back up reaches 4GB it fails.
>|>
>|> Any idea how I can rectify this problem?

>| Just to add a little bit to Gerard's precise statement............
>| Your alternative is :format your external hdd in NTFS.
>
>All 8 of my USB hard drives (4x 500GB, 1x 400GB, 3x 160GB) are formatted
>with reiserfs. I use rsync to make backups.

As OP posted using MS Outlook Express I doubt if you will make
him happy, advising reiserFS :-)

--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:10:08 GMT Gerard Bok <bok118@zonnet.nl> wrote:
| On 12 Oct 2007 01:57:52 GMT, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
|
|>On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:32:06 -0700 sandy58 <Aleckie59@aol.com> wrote:
|>| On Oct 11, 11:42 am, "Sonars_UK" <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com>
|
|>|> I've purchased an external USB hard drive for back up purposes. However,
|>|> when the back up reaches 4GB it fails.
|>|>
|>|> Any idea how I can rectify this problem?
|
|>| Just to add a little bit to Gerard's precise statement............
|>| Your alternative is :format your external hdd in NTFS.
|>
|>All 8 of my USB hard drives (4x 500GB, 1x 400GB, 3x 160GB) are formatted
|>with reiserfs. I use rsync to make backups.
|
| As OP posted using MS Outlook Express I doubt if you will make
| him happy, advising reiserFS :-)

Part of the point is, "not FAT32". That might support the notion that he
could use NTFS. Other options include having everything on a file server,
which is how I access those drives from MS Windows, when I might need to.

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| Phil Howard KA9WGN (ka9wgn.ham.org) / Do not send to the address below |
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|------------------------------------/-------------------------------------|

"Sonars_UK" wrote in message
news:26nPi.13382$z05.4394@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...
> I've purchased an external USB hard drive for back up purposes.
> However, when the back up reaches 4GB it fails.

"the backup". Yeah, that's a detailed or accurate description of WHAT
program you are using to create the backup ... not! Some backup
programs are nothing but a GUI attached to a copy program, some of
which merely shove the files into a .zip file. Some archiving
libraries are antiquated and only allow the creation of 4GB maximum
sized .zip files. Some deficient or crippled backup programs will not
span a backup across multiple files. If you are hitting the FAT32
filesize limit of 4GB, and if the backup program won't span the backup
across multiple backup files then use a better backup program.

"Gerard Bok" wrote:\
>
> As OP posted using MS Outlook Express I doubt if you will make
> him happy, advising reiserFS :-)

Look, children, a newsreader snob.

Jon

"Jon Danniken" <jonREMOVETHISdanniken@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:5n9u23Fh7oelU1@mid.individual.net...
> "Gerard Bok" wrote:\
>>
>> As OP posted using MS Outlook Express I doubt if you will make
>> him happy, advising reiserFS :-)
>
> Look, children, a newsreader snob.

Ya... I use rsync to backup ext3 partitions.