TPaddler Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I just upgraded to an Intel Mac. I downloaded Retrospect 6.1 and the latest drivers that I could find. I still get an error message saying that there is a 2.0 G limit. Full report folllows. Advice? ? Retrospect version 6.1.126 launched at 7/16/2007 12:05 PM + Retrospect Driver Update, version 6.1.11.101 + Normal backup using TedDailyBackup at 7/16/2007 12:06 PM To backup set TedIntelBackup… - 7/16/2007 12:06:06 PM: Copying HD1… Can't add that much data to backup set. The limit is 2.0 G. 7/16/2007 12:20:21 PM: Execution incomplete. Remaining: 582168 files, 75.0 GB Completed: 0 files, zero KB Performance: 0.0 MB/minute Duration: 00:14:15 (00:14:05 idle/loading/preparing) 7/16/2007 12:20:23 PM: Execution incomplete. Total duration: 00:14:15 (00:14:05 idle/loading/preparing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 What type of backup are you doing? File Backup? Check the formatting of the disk to which you are backing up. I bet that it is not HFS+, but instead is FAT32 (PC formatted), which has a 2 GB file size. Reformat as HFS+ and it should work. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Quote: What type of backup are you doing? File Backup? Check the formatting of the disk to which you are backing up. I bet that it is not HFS+, but instead is FAT32 (PC formatted), which has a 2 GB file size. Reformat as HFS+ and it should work. Russ Not quite correct: FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit. Old versions of AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) has a 2GB file size limit. Are you backing up to a network disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPaddler Posted July 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 It was a new external hard disk that came preformatted in FAT32. Reformatting it as HFS+ fixed the problem. Thanks. Ted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravin Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 FWIW, I installed the latest RDU (6.1.11.101), and I am now able to backup to a file on a LaCie Ethernet RAID 2 TB NAS connecting with SMB. Before the update it failed saying the backup set would exceed 2gb. I did not reformat the drive, only replaced the driver. I have completed one file backup of 38gb and almost done with a second that exceeds 50gb. The RDU definitely seems to have helped that issue. (Now I have a new one for another post.) -r Running Mac OS 10.4 Retrospect 6.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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