backup to fat32 ...

[LordGrover]

Is there a way around this?
I would like to backup 40-ish GB to external USB HDD formatted fat32.
i. I gather fat32 supports file size up to 4GB
ii. I'd like to retain fat32 on this drive so that I have RW access from linux.

[Tycho]

Isn't it 4Gb individual file size, not total?

[LordGrover]

Tycho said:

Isn't it 4Gb individual file size, not total?

Yep - didn't make that clear. Backups are typically one file so xp's backup, cobian, etc are unable to create the required file on this drive.

[Tycho]

Ah, right. I thought Linux is pretty close to having RW support for NTFS. I know my Ubuntu can read my NTFS partition.

[Bodo]

Format hdd to ext2, install ext2 driver on win machine.

[SneakyNeil]

If you install ntfs-3g on the linux box you'll have write access to NTFS drives. I think it's available in synaptic on ubuntu, you'll just have to set the mounts up yourself.

[LordGrover]

All very interesting. Let me re-phrase the question:

Is there a Windows program that will back up a Windows XP system, greater than 4GB, to a FAT32 external disk?

[SneakyNeil]

LordGrover said:

All very interesting. Let me re-phrase the question:

Is there a Windows program that will back up a Windows XP system, greater than 4GB, to a FAT32 external disk?

If you're not interested in the system state, 7zip or Winrar will split archive files every 3.9GB as they go for you. 7zip is free and good but if you want it automated you'll need to get into batch files.

[malman]

SneakyNeil said:

LordGrover said:

All very interesting. Let me re-phrase the question:

Is there a Windows program that will back up a Windows XP system, greater than 4GB, to a FAT32 external disk?

If you're not interested in the system state, 7zip or Winrar will split archive files every 3.9GB as they go for you. 7zip is free and good but if you want it automated you'll need to get into batch files.

What he said then script ntbackup to do your system state as a separate backup as that will be less than 4Gb typically