Backing up Large File

[radicalmatt]

hi,

 

I am using Retrospect 5.0.238 and Jaguar 10.2.8 I backed up to a external RAID, with no problem. I now have a 400 Gig data file, with a 500 Meg catalog on the RAID. I want to back that up to a AIT 3 Tape drive, each tape having capacity of 100Gigs.

 

The problem I have, is that the backup never ends. It goes through 10 AIT tapes (800 - 900 gigs) and it keeps asking for more. It shouldn't need that many, since this is only a 400 gig file. Looking at the Backup set details, it says each tape got filled 90% and the data size of the backup is 818 gigs....why so much?

 

Is there a limit on the size of a single file?

 

 

thanks

 

matt

[natew]

Hi

 

The size limit for a backup set or a single file is one Terabyte.

 

Have you considered using the tools->copy->transfer function instead? It will make restoring from tape much easier later.

 

Thanks

Nate