"Not enough space for selected files" error

[smcgill]

Dear All,

 

I'm attempting to backup numerous servers, workstations etc. to a large RAID device (XServe) and am receiving the following log when backing up large machines. Machines that only need 100 or 200Mb backed up are working. This reminded me of the old days when large files greater thatn 2GB could not be created due to HFS or FAT16 disks etc... but this appears to be a different thing. The actual disk space is not a problem (around 1.3TB free) and I didn't think there were any file size limitations.

 

Can anyone shed some light?... Log transcript follows... thanks a lot.

 

Scott

 

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- 5/20/2004 3:51:44 PM: Copying HD on David's PowerBook…

5/20/2004 3:51:44 PM: Connected to David's PowerBook

Not enough space for selected files.

About 217.0 M more required.

5/20/2004 3:54:24 PM: Execution incomplete.

Remaining: 6582 files, 2.5 GB

Completed: 0 files, zero KB

Performance: 0.0 MB/minute

Duration: 00:02:40 (00:02:39 idle/loading/preparing)

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[natew]

Hi

 

You have saved a file backup set on a network volume right? Sadly the biggest backup you can get is 2GB this way. For more details see the bottom of this document:

http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=27238

 

Thanks

Nate

[aerodrome]

does this ring true for backing up to a firewire drive?

[natew]

Hi

 

This could happen on a firewire drive if it is not formatted as HFS+ (mac OS extended). Check the format of the drive for sure.

 

nate