L6 backup
I have backed up my "Logos 4" folder to an external HD- I have 743 GB's of free space, but during the back up it said the "LibraryIndex" folder, which is 12.2 GB is to large for destination- anyone have suggestions as to why?
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My guess: your external drive is formatted with FAT32, which has a maximum file size of 4GB (but some of the files in LibraryIndex are larger than that).
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If Bradley's guess is correct, the solution is to reformat your HD using NTFS (assuming you're on Windows). You'll lose your existing data, of course.
Or you could exclude LibraryIndex - it would be rebuilt if it wasn't there after a restore.
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Thanks Both
I will hold off reformatting- have a lot of old documents on there.
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Or use a commercial backup tool instead of just copying files; AFAIK, most backup programs split files up into smaller chunks for backup.
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Or use a commercial backup tool instead of just copying files; AFAIK, most backup programs split files up into smaller chunks for backup.
CrashPlan is free to use when backing up to external media, although it's supposed to be used on a schedule (daily/weekly/etc.)
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I'm not sure how much your backup files are compressed (if they are compressed at all), but another option is to compress the whole set with something like PKZip, SecureZip, WinZip, etc.
That may decrease the size enough to get you through for the time being.
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