Merrick Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 - My user is running Retrospect 6.1 on OS X and the backup sets are on a Windows 2003 file server. - The source folder for one backup set is 1.8 GB and runs successfully. - The source folder for the other backup set is 20 GB and gets the error "Can't add that much data to backup set. The limit is 2.0 G." Any help is greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 - What version of Retrospect (6.1.xxx) and which RDU (Retrosepct Device Update) is being used? - IS the limit of a single file on the Destination volume actually 2.0G? Can you copy a 2+G file via the Finder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 How is the share being seen by the Mac running Retrospect? (FAT32, SMB, NTFS, AFP, etc.) If some Windows AFP driver is being used, what version of AFP protocol is being supported by the Windows 2003 file server? What are you using on the Windows 2003 file server to do the sharing to the Mac? And, Dave's suggested test is a good one. Create a 4 GB file, try copying it to the Windows file server and back. How big is the result for the round trip? Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Quote: If some Windows AFP driver is being used, what version of AFP protocol is being supported by the Windows 2003 file server? I don't know the version, but the size limit is indeed 2GB in Microsofts implementation of an old version of the APF protocol. And the file name limit is 31 characters. We hit both limits quite often. But even though newer AFP specs exist since 2000 (or maybe 2001) (without these limits), Microsoft hasn't implemented them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merrick Posted October 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Russ, - The share is being seen as NTFS - No AFP driver is being used - The 2003 file server is using standard file sharing - My user copied a 2.9G file to the file server with no trouble Is it time to look at Retrospect itself? Thanks much for all your responses thus far. -Merrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Quote: - The share is being seen as NTFS - My user copied a 2.9G file to the file server with no trouble That doesn't make sense, since the Mac can't write to NTFS disks. If you (on the Mac) shows Finder info about the volume, is it really shown as NTFS???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Quote: Is it time to look at Retrospect itself? Actually, the time to look at Retrospect itself was in the original post, where specific information regarding the software versions being used was omitted. Then it was time again, about an hour and a half later, when there was a specific request for that specific information. Of course Lennart is (as usual) correct. NTFS disks are mounted on OS X as read-only. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050521110452194&lsrc=osxh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merrick Posted October 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 Lennart, you are correct. The finder info shows "Format: Windows Sharing (SMB/CIFS)" My apologies, my background has been with Windows support only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merrick Posted October 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Just to recap my issue: - My user is running Retrospect 6.1 on OS X and the backup sets are to be stored on a Windows 2003 file server. - The source folder for one backup set is 1.8 GB and runs successfully. - The source folder for the other backup set is 20 GB and gets the error "Can't add that much data to backup set. The limit is 2.0 G." - The finder info shows "Format: Windows Sharing (SMB/CIFS - My user copied a 2.9G file to the file server with no trouble Any help is greatly appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Have you seen this thread? http://forums.dantz.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/100835/an/0/page/0#Post100835 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Quote: Just to recap my issue: And just to recap the responses so far, you continue to omit critical information that may point to a solution. Please look at posts #100490 and #100579 above, and answer the question regarding the specific version of Retrospect and the version of the RDU that it is using. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merrick Posted October 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Dave, My sincerest apologies. I thought that I had mentioned in a previous post that it was version 6.1.126 but had no RDU installed. I installed RDU version 6.1.12.101 today and it works!!! (Go ahead and roll your eyes...I deserve it) Thanks very much to everyone for their responses and their time! -Merrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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