NTBackup stopped before completing

I was using NTBackup (via the wizard) to back up the server to a hard drive
(drives/files, exchange store, and Systat state). About half way through it
stopped the backup, reporting no more space available, eventhough there was
still 27GB free (and it had only use about 4GB out of an estimated 10GB of
needed storage). Any ideas what might be going on? (file size limit?)

Thanks for the help. -Pat

Kevin
Mon Oct 06 06:52:32 CDT 2003

my guess -- bad tape. check your event log. then run a cleaning tape thru
your drive 5 or 6 times consecutively, then try doing a backup with a
different tape, then try it with the tape that failed.

-kw

"Pat Kelecy" <pat@reemoovethismp-m.com> wrote in message
news:u3rjsa8iDHA.1960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I was using NTBackup (via the wizard) to back up the server to a hard
drive
> (drives/files, exchange store, and Systat state). About half way through
it
> stopped the backup, reporting no more space available, eventhough there
was
> still 27GB free (and it had only use about 4GB out of an estimated 10GB of
> needed storage). Any ideas what might be going on? (file size limit?)
>
> Thanks for the help. -Pat
>
>

Pat
Mon Oct 06 07:54:11 CDT 2003

I wasn't backing up to tape, but to a hard drive in one of the client PCs.
In the wizard is showed this as backing up to a file, which seemed right.
So I'm not sure what was going on, except about half way through it would
stop saying "the fixed media is full".

Thanks for the help. -Pat


"Kevin Weilbacher" <kweilbac@gte.net> wrote in message
news:uPFNVBAjDHA.548@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> my guess -- bad tape. check your event log. then run a cleaning tape thru
> your drive 5 or 6 times consecutively, then try doing a backup with a
> different tape, then try it with the tape that failed.
>
> -kw
>
> "Pat Kelecy" <pat@reemoovethismp-m.com> wrote in message
> news:u3rjsa8iDHA.1960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > I was using NTBackup (via the wizard) to back up the server to a hard
> drive
> > (drives/files, exchange store, and Systat state). About half way
through
> it
> > stopped the backup, reporting no more space available, eventhough there
> was
> > still 27GB free (and it had only use about 4GB out of an estimated 10GB
of
> > needed storage). Any ideas what might be going on? (file size limit?)
> >
> > Thanks for the help. -Pat
> >
> >
>
>

Pat
Mon Oct 06 08:17:16 CDT 2003

I think I discovered the problem. The target hard drive is formated in
fat32 which I think limits the file size to around 4GB. To go above this, I
need to convert it ntfs. I believe there is an option for doing this in
Windows XP. Is this safe to do?

Thanks, -Pat



"Kevin Weilbacher" <kweilbac@gte.net> wrote in message
news:uPFNVBAjDHA.548@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> my guess -- bad tape. check your event log. then run a cleaning tape thru
> your drive 5 or 6 times consecutively, then try doing a backup with a
> different tape, then try it with the tape that failed.
>
> -kw
>
> "Pat Kelecy" <pat@reemoovethismp-m.com> wrote in message
> news:u3rjsa8iDHA.1960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > I was using NTBackup (via the wizard) to back up the server to a hard
> drive
> > (drives/files, exchange store, and Systat state). About half way
through
> it
> > stopped the backup, reporting no more space available, eventhough there
> was
> > still 27GB free (and it had only use about 4GB out of an estimated 10GB
of
> > needed storage). Any ideas what might be going on? (file size limit?)
> >
> > Thanks for the help. -Pat
> >
> >
>
>

Kevin
Mon Oct 06 08:44:43 CDT 2003

Duh ... I missed the part about backing up to disk ... my mistake!
-kw

"Pat Kelecy" <pat@reemoovethismp-m.com> wrote in message
news:eSNDzjAjDHA.268@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I wasn't backing up to tape, but to a hard drive in one of the client PCs.
> In the wizard is showed this as backing up to a file, which seemed right.
> So I'm not sure what was going on, except about half way through it would
> stop saying "the fixed media is full".
>
> Thanks for the help. -Pat
>
>
> "Kevin Weilbacher" <kweilbac@gte.net> wrote in message
> news:uPFNVBAjDHA.548@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > my guess -- bad tape. check your event log. then run a cleaning tape
thru
> > your drive 5 or 6 times consecutively, then try doing a backup with a
> > different tape, then try it with the tape that failed.
> >
> > -kw
> >
> > "Pat Kelecy" <pat@reemoovethismp-m.com> wrote in message
> > news:u3rjsa8iDHA.1960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > I was using NTBackup (via the wizard) to back up the server to a hard
> > drive
> > > (drives/files, exchange store, and Systat state). About half way
> through
> > it
> > > stopped the backup, reporting no more space available, eventhough
there
> > was
> > > still 27GB free (and it had only use about 4GB out of an estimated
10GB
> of
> > > needed storage). Any ideas what might be going on? (file size limit?)
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help. -Pat
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

Rick
Mon Oct 06 20:53:34 CDT 2003

FAT32 is not limited to 4GB, FAT is limited to 2GB but FAT32 can go alot
higher. I had a 27GB HD and was able to format in one partition with FAT32.
How much free space is available on the workstation?
Converting to NTFS has always been safe for me, even in the Windows Server
3.51 days. It is recommended to do a backup, of course.