genemcglasson Posted January 10, 2003 Report Share Posted January 10, 2003 Retrospect 5.0.238 Mac OS 10.2.3 Windows client on NT4 box When backing up the D drive retrospect reports the following: Not enough space for selected files. About 971.9 G more required. The D drive is I 20 GB with just 5.7 used. Does anyone have an idea why RB thinks it's so large. I can't backup the drive until this gets fixed. With thanks, Gene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted January 13, 2003 Report Share Posted January 13, 2003 From the Knowledgebasecolor=blue> Finder.dat files under Windows When scanning a Windows client, Retrospect 5.0.236 and 5.0.238 may incorrectly report an amount of data to back up that far exceeds the total capacity of the volume scanned. This problem occurs when Retrospect encounters one or more "finder.dat" files on the Windows client volume. Finder.dat files are created when dual-fork Macintosh files are copied to a Windows volume through utilities such as Mac OS's File Exchange or Retrospect's Duplicate functionality. They are used to track the multiple parts of the Mac file while it's on the Windows volume. Dantz is working on a solution to this problem. In the meantime, deleting the finder.dat files from the Windows client volume will alleviate the problem, though the files they represent cannot later be returned to a Mac OS computer with their Mac-specific properties intact. Additional information on finder.dat files can be found in the following Dantz Knowledgebase article: http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=26856 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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