Backup file not creat more then 4 GB?

Question

I am using a small business network ( Windows XP Pro), and I try to windows backup of my server files ( about 25 GB) in my network computer 30 GB free hard disk, but after 4 GB backup complete then eror show that " your disk drive formatted by FAT 32 above 4 GB backup file could not creat".

How to I solve this problem tell me

Answer 1

You are trying to make a backup that is a single file, hence your running into the 4gb limit of FAT32 for a single file..In the options for your backup program, see if you have an option to do "file by file" which performs a backup by making separate files on the destination hard disk instead of one single huge file. Blame this limit on Bill Gates and company. Remember, at one time, 1983 I think, he said that no one would ever need more than 640k on the motherboard... He also limited the maximum size hard disk to 32MB. Yes, I said 32MB! As another suggested, you COULD change the file system to NTFS, however, I believe that when you do this NTFS conversion, you lose the existing contents. If you stick with a file by file backup, later, if you develop a bad sector you only lose one file, the one with the damaged sector. With the single huge file, if a sector goes bad, your lose the ability to recover ANYTHING from that backup. Do you really want to risk your whole backup set on a single sector going bad? Losing one small file is a lot easier to recover from than losing the whole enchilada because of a few bad bits in a sector.

Answer 2

You need to convert the drive from a FAT32 file system to the NTFS file system.  FAT32 (32-bit File Allocation Table), due to limits in design, cannot write a file that is bigger than 4GB.

If you're on a small business network, why would you have any hard drive not use the NTFS file system?  NTFS allows much better security features as well as redundancy.