buzzkilowatt Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Mac G4 running OS 9.2.2 with Retrospect 5.1. I've got a 20 GB drive with 8 GB data that I'm trying to back up to a new Western Digital 250 GB drive in a Firewire enclosure. The execution starts; tries to write some files, but the program quits. The log error message says, "Can't add that much data to back-up set. The limit is 2.0 GB." Is that really true? A 2.0 GB limit would make the product totally useless to me. I formatted the 250 GB drive under OS 9 and OS shows a 230 GB capacity. Erased the drive with Retrospect Tools. Also made sure that the 250 GB drive was not in the set that I wanted to back up (from) Please advise - thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmelkus Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 I back up much more than that every night to tape, so I don't know what is causing your error, but it's not because a storageset volume has a 2GB limit, because that isn't the case. My SDLT Tapes hold 160GB in one member/tape, and I fill them up all the time. I've run as many as 8 DLT tapes (40GB) in a storageset at one time. Sounds like something is amiss. I don't know about backing up to a hard disk, as I don't do that, but that shouldn't matter. -Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but maybe this eliminates one variable for you. -Schmelkus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 Hi The disk is formatted HFS Extended right? Anything else and you will run into size limitations. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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