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Date:	Sun, 7 Oct 2001 21:30:27 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Backup to hard drive not allowed ?

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >Is there a maximum file size under HPFS?
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> 2GB.

That explains why the tests I ran this afternoon and this evening
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.)

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 who are backing up to hard drive doing so with small partitions?
I've never run into the problem before because I use XCOPY.

And just out of technical curiosity, when I used to back up to tape I
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 Back Again/2000 Server kept failing and I thought it was the
software -- might it have instead been the size of my backup sets?

- Peter

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