ahindle Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Hi I have Retrospect 6.1. I'm trying to back up to a network attached (500GB) drive. I understand from reading technotes that there is a limit on the file size of 2GB when doing this; my backup set size is around 20GB. Is there any way of forcing Retrospect to split the backup file to allow me to use my existing storage? Every other backup solution I've ever used has an obivous option to do this, but I cannot find anything in the manual or in the technotes.... Thanks --&e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonaldL Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Unfortunately for file backup sets, it can only be one file. If your NAS has an ftp option, you can try an Internet backup set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahindle Posted February 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Sadness. I'm surprised this feature doesn't exist; it's pretty standard in most other backup solutions. It's particularly frustrating because it does appear that Retrospect will happily span disks if required, so it clearly knows how to split files. Sadly, FTP is not an option because of the way Retrospect supports FTP. Ah well. Guess I'll have to figure out some other solution Any idea how to post an enhancement request? Thanks for your help. --&e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Apparently version 6.1.1.101 of the RDU file effects this, according to this thread posted a few days ago. Give it a try; let us know if it works. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahindle Posted February 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 It was good idea.... Things improved. I got to 5.1GB. And then I got the following: > Trouble writing media: "Mac-Documents" error 206 (drive reported a failure: dirty heads, bad media etc.) This is a networked hard drive which is regularly in use and 500GB of free space. Immediately after I click out of this error, I get: > Trouble in Retrospect: Internal consistency check failed: Assertion check at "file.c-107" And I'm offered a lone 'quit' button which cases Restrospect to exit. I'm running what appears to be the latest version (6.1.126) with Device Access Version 1.0.107 and Driver Update Version 6.1.3.101 Any more cunning ideas.... apart from creating a bunch of mini-backup sets, which I guess is the route I'll have to do unless I can get this to work. And that would be disappointing Thanks! --&e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahindle Posted February 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Problem solved. A combination of this patch, plus a fix to my network storage, has done the trick. Thanks to all who helped. --&e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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