Maximum Backup Size

[AussieRich]

G'day,

I've bought an external 300Gig hard drive ("My Book") I'm trying to create
my 1st Total Backup, using Microsofts own backup utility. However, partway
through it comes up with an error message, saying I can't backup more than
40Gig??

Even if I deselect all my media files, that will still not be enough. Sure
my eventual incremental backups wil; be much smaller, but surely I should be
able to backup the lot the first time in one go?

[philo]

"AussieRich" > wrote in message
...
> G'day,
>
> I've bought an external 300Gig hard drive ("My Book") I'm trying to create
> my 1st Total Backup, using Microsofts own backup utility. However, partway
> through it comes up with an error message, saying I can't backup more than
> 40Gig??
>
> Even if I deselect all my media files, that will still not be enough. Sure
> my eventual incremental backups wil; be much smaller, but surely I should
be
> able to backup the lot the first time in one go?


I advise you not to use MS Backup...
it's probably the worst way to backup your system.

You may want to look at a third party utility such as Acronis and just clone
the drive.

A simple way to backup is just plain copying all your data directly to the
external drive

[babalooey]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:33:35 -0600, "philo" > wrote:

>
>"AussieRich" > wrote in message
...
>> G'day,
>>
>> I've bought an external 300Gig hard drive ("My Book") I'm trying to create
>> my 1st Total Backup, using Microsofts own backup utility. However, partway
>> through it comes up with an error message, saying I can't backup more than
>> 40Gig??
>>
>> Even if I deselect all my media files, that will still not be enough. Sure
>> my eventual incremental backups wil; be much smaller, but surely I should
>be
>> able to backup the lot the first time in one go?
>
>
>I advise you not to use MS Backup...
>it's probably the worst way to backup your system.
>
>You may want to look at a third party utility such as Acronis and just clone
>the drive.
>
>A simple way to backup is just plain copying all your data directly to the
>external drive
>


If the error is because you cannot backup more than 4 point 0 gigs it
is because the MyBook is formatted for FAT32. That is the max file
size under FAT32. If you back the software off of it and reformat the
drive to NTFS you can make a backup file sized as large as the drive.

If the error is at 40 gigs as you say, I can't help you.

hope this helps
jose

[Swifty]

babalooey wrote:
> If the error is at 40 gigs as you say, I can't help you.

I regularly backup way more than 40Gb using SyncToy which is free from
Microsoft.

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk

[M.I.5¾]

"philo" > wrote in message
...
>
> "AussieRich" > wrote in message
> ...
>> G'day,
>>
>> I've bought an external 300Gig hard drive ("My Book") I'm trying to
>> create
>> my 1st Total Backup, using Microsofts own backup utility. However,
>> partway
>> through it comes up with an error message, saying I can't backup more
>> than
>> 40Gig??
>>
>> Even if I deselect all my media files, that will still not be enough.
>> Sure
>> my eventual incremental backups wil; be much smaller, but surely I should
> be
>> able to backup the lot the first time in one go?
>
>
> I advise you not to use MS Backup...
> it's probably the worst way to backup your system.
>
> You may want to look at a third party utility such as Acronis and just
> clone
> the drive.
>
> A simple way to backup is just plain copying all your data directly to the
> external drive
>

The latest version of Acronis (11) has a lot more useful features than just
imaging a hard drive.