If you back up to a "Macintosh Disk" rather than a "Macintosh File",
does the 2 GB limit still apply? (This prevents you using the drive for
anything else however)
If not, you could partition your big HD down into 2 GB chunks. Then
Retrospect should parcel the "Retrospect Data" file among them
no no, this could work. If you could get Retro to treat a bunch of disk
images as if they were 2G removables, it would stripe the backup data
across as many of them as it needed. The backup would not be limited to
2G. The disk images would be like multiple tapes (zips, cdr's, etc) in a
storage
Reply to: RE: using large hard disk as backup desitination
Michael,
I'm really not sure why this was done. I'm assuming it was decided to wait until Apple
lifted the 2GB limit before working around it in the software. Now that Apple has
lifted the limit, that's our cue to change
In order to speed up the backup during the week (it is taking 12-14
hours to back our site up to our Travan 5 drive), I hit upon the idea
of buying a Promax Ultra ATA DMA/33 PCI card and a 25 gig IBM
deskstar drive (total cost about $475 including delivery) and using
that as the backup
Reply to: RE: using large hard disk as backup desitination
Wade,
Up until Mac OS 9, the maximum file size was 2 GB. Now that Apple has
lifted that limit, we need to change Retrospect to reflect that new
capability. We'll probably be doing this in our next release.
That will be great
