jwshoe15 Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I am new to Retrospect version 6.0 and need to backup 250 gig off an OSx 10.4 machine onto a NAS running Windows 2k3 on a daily basis. I run into a problem with Retrospect telling me there is not enough space availiable saying there is 2 gig availiable when there is actually 1.5 tb free. I don't know if this is a protocol limitation but I would rather not have to use FTP if possible. Any help or pointers would be helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Quote: I don't know if this is a protocol limitation... - It might be that; what protocol is being used? - How is the disk formatted? - Is this a File Backup Set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwshoe15 Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I guess I don't know what protocol is being used through Retrospect, SMB or AFP I assume. The Mac is running on a standard Mac OS Extended format, my NAS is running NTFS. Yes this is part of a backup set. Is there any way to break up the set into 2 gig parts rather than one giant 250gig file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Investigate how the share is presented to the Mac from the NAS. If it's being presented as FAT32, well, there is a 2 GB file size limit. And you seriously ought to consider the free Retrospect update from 6.0 to 6.1. Quote: Is this a File Backup Set? Quote: Yes this is part of a backup set. No, that wasn't what Dave was asking. There are different types of backup sets, and the answer might be significant. Look at Configure > Backup Sets, see what type of backup set this is. File Backup Set? etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwshoe15 Posted September 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 I have it set as a File Backup Set. When looking at the NAS share the mac picks it up formatted as: Windows Sharing (SMB/CIFS). It can also see the entire amount of free/used space (750gig as of now) I will try to upgrade to the 6.1 tonight. I can only hop on it at night due to the amount of work usually being done on it. Thank you much for the help so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Quote: I will try to upgrade to the 6.1 tonight. make sure you also update the Retrospect Driver Update (RDU). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwshoe15 Posted September 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 I have both the RDU and the 6.1 update downloaded and ready to go. I will let you know if anything changes. Again, thanks for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwshoe15 Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Update. I installed both updates and it seems to be working now allowing a backup file larger than 2 gig. Thanks again for all the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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