Guest MDunigan Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 I see from several comments on this newsgroup that customers are suggested to reformat large drives at NTFS when the backup job will create output files larger than 4GB. Is it not possible to tell the NTBackup utility to create multiple output files, less than 4GB in size, and just create multiple files for each job as needed? I would really like to use the Windows Backup Utility, as is seems to be faster than third party utilities, but I would like to leave the external disk I am using to hold the backups formatted as FAT32. Also, I would like to occasionally copy the backups to DVD-RW disks for archival, and the 4GB size is great for that.
Guest Edward W. Thompson Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: NT Backup Utility Output File Size "MDunigan" <MDunigan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6E1E38E0-65F0-4D65-865C-5B7F8DF66789@microsoft.com... >I see from several comments on this newsgroup that customers are suggested >to > reformat large drives at NTFS when the backup job will create output files > larger than 4GB. Is it not possible to tell the NTBackup utility to > create > multiple output files, less than 4GB in size, and just create multiple > files > for each job as needed? I would really like to use the Windows Backup > Utility, as is seems to be faster than third party utilities, but I would > like to leave the external disk I am using to hold the backups formatted > as > FAT32. Also, I would like to occasionally copy the backups to DVD-RW > disks > for archival, and the 4GB size is great for that. NtBackup does not natively backup to DVDs so files cannot be 'split' by ntbackup. There is, however, a third party program (Firestreamer) that integrates seamlessly with ntbackup and allows backup by ntbackup directly to DVDs.
Guest MDunigan Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: NT Backup Utility Output File Size I don't want to backup directly to DVDs. I guess I was not clear. What I want to do is to backup to my external hard disk and then on a periodic basis, duplicate the backup files onto DVDs to keep a historical archive. Similar to how professional environmnets run disk-to-disk-to-tape backups. Since this is just my home environment, I want to backup my home linux server to an external hard disk attached to my workstation. Then once or twice a year, copy the backup files from the external hard disk to DVDs for an archive. I will look at filestreamer and see if this will help. Should I assume that NTBackup does not have any ability to split the output files on its own? Thanks. "Edward W. Thompson" wrote: > > "MDunigan" <MDunigan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:6E1E38E0-65F0-4D65-865C-5B7F8DF66789@microsoft.com... > >I see from several comments on this newsgroup that customers are suggested > >to > > reformat large drives at NTFS when the backup job will create output files > > larger than 4GB. Is it not possible to tell the NTBackup utility to > > create > > multiple output files, less than 4GB in size, and just create multiple > > files > > for each job as needed? I would really like to use the Windows Backup > > Utility, as is seems to be faster than third party utilities, but I would > > like to leave the external disk I am using to hold the backups formatted > > as > > FAT32. Also, I would like to occasionally copy the backups to DVD-RW > > disks > > for archival, and the 4GB size is great for that. > > NtBackup does not natively backup to DVDs so files cannot be 'split' by > ntbackup. There is, however, a third party program (Firestreamer) that > integrates seamlessly with ntbackup and allows backup by ntbackup directly > to DVDs. > > >
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