Network Backup Problems

I have two windows PCs, one running win 98 SE, the other 2000 Pro. I have an external drive connected to the 2000 machine and am having problems backuping up from the 98 PC. I am using MS Backup. If I try to backup all files from the 98 PC to the shared drive after about 4.25 GB I get an insufficient disk space message from backup. The external drive is formatted NTFS. If I try to backup the shared C: drive on the 98 PC from the 2000 PC, the backup completes, all 9GB, but when I then try a differential backup it tried to backup about half the files or 4GB.

Mike

 

I think the Win98 Backup program will be limited to the file system of the local system even though the data is sent over the network. FAT32 has a single file size limit of 4GB so that's why the full backup fails in Win98 but is successful when using Win2k. Where are you doing the differential backup from?

 

Are you sure about that? When the external hard drive was formatted FAT-32, the backup would fail exactly at 4GB.

I'm doing the differential from the 2000 PC after the full.