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kwsimpson · Guest

We are a small company with the following hardware/software setup:

We run Windows 2000 Professional as OS, on 8 workstations. We operate a
peer-to-peer network through CAT 5 cabling, with 100 mega bits/second
transfer rate. We do not run server software or hardware. We have archiving
needs ranging from 1 GB to 200 GB variably on the workstations and we have a
dedicated workstation for backing up the data (through the network). In this
dedicated backup workstation there are three removable hard disk drives (each
250 GB in size).

There seems to be a limitation for backing up 1 particular workstation (with
about 200GB of data) through our peer-to-peer network, in that the backup
either crashes, or if successful, the restore has to be done in small
portions, and not the full restore at one time. The backup takes upwards of
6 hours (in the evening during low network traffic).

Is anyone aware of Microsoft filesize limitations during backup operations,
specific to our network/backup setup described above?

I note that Microsoft is aware of a large file copy problem for computers
running Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 (Article ID 259837), when using the
Windows COPY function. Their resolution is to install Service Pack 2 (which
we have done). I also note that Microsoft's suggested workaround is to use
backup tools as they 'use different functions to read and write data'.

Thanks,

Kent

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