pcoats Posted September 3, 2004 Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 I have a new computer from Dell running Windows XP Home. I have a 160GB USB 2.0 exernal drive that I want to use as my backup device. I can copy files just fine to and from this external disk using Windows Explorer. I have configured a File Backup Set on this external drive. I have configured a subvolume for "My Documents". I have created a Backup Script to backup this subvolume to this backup set. Whenever I run this script, it counts up about 10GB of files and folders that need to be backed up and then generates an error that there is not enough space, it needs 2GB more space. This does not make sense because I have over 100GB of free space on the external drive. (Note: I am sure that the backup set is on my external drive - I can see it there.) What am I doing wrong ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awnews Posted September 3, 2004 Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 How is your external USB 2.0 drive formatted (FAT32 or NTFS)? FAT32 has a file size limit of 2GB. NTFS has a filesize limit but it's *much* larger (2TB?). Easy solution--reformat the USB drive as NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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