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 ou
> From: Wade Masshardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:47:23 -0600
> To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: using large hard disk as backup desitination
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At 8:34 AM -0800 12/17/1999, Matthew Tevenan wrote:
>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
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 set
>RE: You can use resedit to make retrospect recognize other media. I
>back up to disk images all the time. Ask tech support for the fix
>or if you can't get it I have it archived away somewhere.
>
>Tom
In this case it doesn't gain me anything, really, since the disk
images have the same 2GB s
RE: You can use resedit to make retrospect recognize other media. I back up to disk
images all the time. Ask tech support for the fix or if you can't get it I have it
archived away somewhere.
Tom
>
>Retrospect doesn't seem to want to recognize the disk as a removable media, which it
>isn't.
>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 t
Reply to: Re: using large hard disk as backup desitination
Luke,
You're right, but not all hard drives are recognized as removables by the
OS. Certain formatting software (I know LaCie's "SilverLining" is one)
formats hard drives with the removable bit on so they
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 as
Reply to: RE: using large hard disk as backup desitination
Wade,
Unfortunately I'm not sure of when the next release is expected. In
response to your other question, Retrospect will not automatically continue on
to another file backup set after it fills one.
The only workaroun
> 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
I do this as well, but with retrospect under NT. Big drives (I use 2 37GB
slow IDE's) as you noted are cheap and faster than tape. I backup
each client to its own file. Using NTFS on the drives, my largest backup sets
are approaching 4GB. I think the largest file NTFS supports with my cluster
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.
Regards,
Ma
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