Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread dana rasmussen
Virex, forgot all about that. Thank you, one and all. -- Dana Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seattle, Wa > From: "Dan O'Donnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:51:19 -0800 > To: "re

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread Malcolm McLeary
Hi Dana, on 11/1/01 5:37 PM, dana rasmussen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a customer with an interesting problem. On his G-4 tower, he is > backing up to a firewire hard drive. The file is currently about 4.5 gb. > When he tried to do the same thing with his firewire powerbook, same sys

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread Donovan Brooke
dana,  If you are not absolutley sure that the firewire drive is HFS+ I would double check it.  (do a get info on the drive)  look for Mac OS Extended. - D Shawn Welter wrote: Mac os 9 supported files over 2gb. To use retrospect you need version 4.3. I currently back up 40 mac clients and 10 pc c

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread Shawn Welter
Mac os 9 supported files over 2gb. To use retrospect you need version 4.3. I currently back up 40 mac clients and 10 pc clients to 60gb IDE drives using mac files. Some backup sets are 12gb apiece. We do massive selecting as all are software is installed by filewave. Each client averages about

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread Julia Frizzell
At 9:46 AM -0800 1/12/01, Glenn L. Austin wrote: > > At 19:34 2001-01-11 -0800, you wrote: >>> I need to check to be sure, but I believe both are HFS +. >>> The powerbook is running Retrospect, and backing itself up >>> onto a firewire drive. >>> -- >> >> The 2 gb limit is damn annoying but

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread Glenn L. Austin
> At 19:34 2001-01-11 -0800, you wrote: >> I need to check to be sure, but I believe both are HFS +. >> The powerbook is running Retrospect, and backing itself up >> onto a firewire drive. >> -- > > The 2 gb limit is damn annoying but you have to get used to it. The limit > is the mac os itself,

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread jakob krabbe
At 19:34 2001-01-11 -0800, you wrote: >I need to check to be sure, but I believe both are HFS +. >The powerbook is running Retrospect, and backing itself up >onto a firewire drive. >-- The 2 gb limit is damn annoying but you have to get used to it. The limit is the mac os itself, not retrosp

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-11 Thread dana rasmussen
Title: Re: 2gb limit? I need to check to be sure, but I believe both are HFS +.  The powerbook is running Retrospect, and backing itself up onto a firewire drive. -- Dana Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seattle, Wa From: "Donovan Brooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Epson

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-11 Thread Donovan Brooke
dana, there are several issues related to the 2 gig limit Mac File issue. first, the HD that has the back up set has to be in HFS+ format.  Second, I would ask, how/what is your client doing the back up.  is the powerbook a back up host that is backing up a mounted volume?  or, is the powerbook r