RE: Backing up large database

2001-07-27 Thread Al Musella, DPM
It looks like downloading it with PCanywhere without first zipping it may do the trick it is going very fast... thanks. As to what is in it, mainly the archives of a mailing list I am sure this list's archives are many times that size already! Al I understand that, but 1.2 GB

RE: Backing up large database

2001-07-26 Thread Justin Greene
- -Original Message- From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Backing up large database On 7/25/01, Dave Watts penned: Man, what do you have in that database? LOL I've got

RE: Backing up large database

2001-07-25 Thread Justin Greene
A few thoughts 1. .zip does have a file size and file count limit. Sound like you are hitting the former. I understand the RAR does not have this limitation, but have not worked with it. 2. Perhaps you can download the file using a protocol that compresses dynamically (like zmodem) rather

Re: Backing up large database

2001-07-25 Thread Bud
On 7/24/01, Al Musella, DPM penned: SNIP Worked fine until today. It seems the data file got too large to zip. Does CF_ZIP have a size limit? The file is 2.1 gigs unzipped (200 megs zipped - goes very fast with my cable modem:). I have over 20 gigs of free hard disk space on the server. Is

RE: Backing up large database

2001-07-25 Thread Dave Watts
Man, what do you have in that database? LOL I've got databases on my SQL Server that aren't HUGE, but they do have some rather large tables (30 fields or so) with several thousand records in them and they're only 11-12 MB. Do you have the database options set to Auto-Shrink? In

RE: Backing up large database

2001-07-25 Thread Bud
On 7/25/01, Dave Watts penned: Man, what do you have in that database? LOL I've got databases on my SQL Server that aren't HUGE, but they do have some rather large tables (30 fields or so) with several thousand records in them and they're only 11-12 MB. Do you have the database options