cmfulmer Posted March 2, 2002 Report Share Posted March 2, 2002 Can I make a byte by byte backup of my interanl 60 GB hard drive to my newly purchased 60 GB external firewire hard drive? I'm wanting to protect myself against a disaster and figured it could be done but I'm not seeing anything that lets me know it can. If it can be done, HOW? And in the event of a disaster, how would I go about retrieving the data and placing it on the newly purchased computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 3, 2002 Report Share Posted March 3, 2002 You can do it two ways: Backup using a File Backup Set as the Storage Type or Use the Duplicate feature which copies the files from one disk to another in the native format. Duplicate performs incremental copies each time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmfulmer Posted March 3, 2002 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2002 When I try to 'duplicate', retrospect gets 5.3 GB copied and then quits. It says 'disk full'. I don't know why because it's a 60 GB drive. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 3, 2002 Report Share Posted March 3, 2002 Make sure the disk is formatted as Mac OS Extended. Check the disk, to see how much free space if available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmfulmer Posted March 3, 2002 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2002 I'm using Win 2000. The backup absolutely will not work. I cannot duplicate or backup because it says my disk is full. I am trying to back up 20 GB of information onto my 60 GB firewire harddrive. Shouldn't be a big deal, right? What the f@$# is going on? Does this software even work with windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 4, 2002 Report Share Posted March 4, 2002 Make sure the Windows 2000 disk is formatted as NTFS, to avoid file system limits which can prevent large backups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmfulmer Posted March 4, 2002 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2002 When you say make sure the disk is formatted as NTFS, do you mean the external firewire hard drive or the internal hd on my computer. The internal one IS formatted NTFS since I'm running win 2000. If you mean the firewire drive, how do you go about formatting it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 4, 2002 Report Share Posted March 4, 2002 The drive properties will tell you how it is configured. You need to make sure the destination disk is NTFS. You can do this, by right clicking on the drive in Windows Explorer and choosing "format". Warning: This will delete all items from that disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 4, 2002 Report Share Posted March 4, 2002 You need to make sure the destination disk is NTFS. You can do this, by right clicking on the drive in Windows Explorer and choosing "format". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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