[ale] [OT] External USB drives

[David Tomaschik]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 12:23:56 pm Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>   
>>> Windows backup didn't work, because it said it couldn't create a file
>>> larger than 4Gb
>>>       
>> Wow.  Is that still stuck in the dark ages?
>>
>> Why would they still have a rather artificial 4 GB restriction on the
>> system?  That's pretty sad.
>>
>>     --- Mike
>>     
>
> fat32 file system.. SO, I should either delete the partition and create 2 
> partitions, one for my laptop & one for th desktop, or just do it 
> file-by-file. I really wanted to ghost it, but I'm sure that will run up 
> against the same file size limitation.
>
>   
IMO, that's still a broken implementation.  Windows backup (or any 
decent backup system) should be able to split backups on arbitrary 
boundaries: 700MB for CD-R, 4GB for FAT32, or 4.7GB for DVD+R.  
Unfortunately we don't all have Blu-Ray or HD-DVD burners where we back 
up whole partitions in a single shot.  :)

I *BELIEVE* ghost can split files, as I know ghost can be done from 
optical media.

--David