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Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:24:23 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Backup to hard drive not allowed ?

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In <3BC12BC2.16F4@peterskye.com>, on 10/07/01
at 09:30 PM, Peter Skye said:

>couldn't create a file larger than 2 GB. (I always get SYS0112 which has
>nothing to do with a 2 GB limitation. Somewhat misleading.)

It is misleading, but I'm pretty sure there's no specific message for
exceeding the max file size.

>How do you back up to hard drive with compression if you're backing up
>data which creates an archive file which is more than 2 GB? Are you guys

I split the backups into segments based on some criteria that makes sense
to me. For me, it's easier to do with BA2K, but zip supports exclude
lists so the same technique is possible with zip.

>used some Seagate 8 GB (4 GB native) tape drives (both SCSI and IDE
>ATAPI). Is there a 2 GB limit on them too? I stopped using them because

There's no practical limit on tape. FWIW, other filesystems have larger
file size limits (i.e. HPFS386, JFS).

>Back Again/2000 Server kept failing and I thought it was the software --
>might it have instead been the size of my backup sets?

If going to hard disk, that's probably true. If the failure occurred for
tape, the problem is elsewhere.

Steven

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