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Re: Large Backups now a breeze in OSX

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:22 pm, Shawn Erickson wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 05:41 PM, Martyn Ford wrote:
> > For some time now Mac OS8.x-> 9.x users have not been able to use
> > Retrospect backup
> > software or send a file to a hard drive that is larger than 2 Gig.
> >
> > This information was hard to find on the Retrospect Backup,
> > Dantz.com website.
> >
> > There is a 2gig file size limit and HFS, HFS+ is the season. But
> > now thanks to Unix that door have been flung open.
>
> FYI... HFS+ does not have a 2gig file limit only HFS. HFS+ supports
> file sizes of 2^63 (see
> <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html>).

Yeah, what Shawn said.

I have a 40G drive on my 9.2.x machine which is used for nothing but
Retrospect backups of about 8 machines. I usually don't allow one
machine's backup file to get much over 8G before I rollover to a new
one. Most stay under 3 or 4G until the monthly automatic rollover.

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