TFE Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 am having trouble backing up to a 500gb FW WD hard disk. I add the media set and it is defaulting to (at most use) 5 (GB) or 100 percent. the 5 is greyed out but i cannot replace it with any other figure or accept with the field blank. The 100percent is being ignored. The backup is getting to 5gb and requesting new media. The system is saying 0B Free. Earlier it found the 500gb but then decided after the backup started that it would only use 5gb of entire space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 What is the file system on the disk? How is it formatted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFE Posted March 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 I used disk utility and made 1 partition selecting apple partition map and OS Extended (journaled). When i first added media set it said 461GB free (as it should) but later during the backup it only backed up 5gb. I tried to fix it by editing the Members but it wouldn't. So i reformatted and started again. This time 28GB and decided it was full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 Very strange. What happens if you do a catalog rebuild? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 am having trouble backing up to a 500gb FW WD hard disk Could be hardware related. What's the hardware being used (all of it; computer, drive, FW bridge, etc)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 A simple test: Try a backup to a different external HD. What happens? Does it stop after 5 GB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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