2 Gig file size limit in Express 5.0?

[reyhoward]

Hi:

 

 

 

Please help! I have a lot of huge video files that I need to back up, so when I found out about the 2 gig file-size limit in Express 4.3, I immediately upgraded to 5.0.

 

 

 

I did a big backup of all of my video files to DVDs, and everything went just fine. Then I tried (several times) to do a full hard-drive backup to a drive on my network, but I wasn't able to get it to work. Just as it looks like it's about to start actually backing up files, the process stops and I get me the following messages in the log:

 

 

 

+ Executing Immediate Backup at 4/12/2002 17:05

 

To backup set DailyCreaStaBackup…

 

 

 

- 4/12/2002 17:05:54: Copying Macintosh HD…

 

Can't add that much data to backup set.

 

The limit is 2.0 G.

 

4/12/2002 17:06:01: Execution incomplete.

 

Remaining: 49191 files, 47.6 GB

 

Completed: 0 files, zero KB

 

Performance: 0.0 MB/minute

 

Duration: 00:00:07 (00:00:06 idle/loading/preparing)

 

 

 

4/12/2002 17:06:01: Execution incomplete.

 

 

 

Why is it not working? Why am I getting "The limit is 2.0 G" in 5.0? Please help!

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Rey

[ZakB]

Due to Apple File Protocol networking limits, network backups are limited to 2 GB over the network. This is true for ALL Apple operating systems.

[RickL]

Is there a work around for the 2 gb limit. I didn't think that I could tell express to limit the size of a file backup set - that would allow me to use multiple backup sets. Manually selecting which files to backup to keep the backup unter 2gb is a very long and slow process, since express wants to scan all 100,000 files first.

 

How about a file size limit to sets in express?