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Date:	Sun, 28 Jul 2002 08:24:25 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Drive Image Backups

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In <0GZY00HZB2SYR8@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net>, on 07/27/02
at 09:48 PM, sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro) said:

>I once tried using BackAgain 2000 to back up files to a hard drive
>partition, and I found that 2 GB was the largest file I could create.
>(Using a hpfs partition). Have you come up against that limitation with
>BA /2 pro?

As Peter mentioned, there are file systems limitations. There's also a
programming issue. You have to use a different set of programming API's
to write files larger than 2GB. Apparently, CDS supports this in
BA2K/Server.

Steven

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