Quick Ghost question

[Linflas]

I am creating a Ghost image to a network share of a newly installed machine. Everything works fine except that Ghost insists on creating 2 files in the share folder even though when it asked I tell it not to span. Anyone have any idea why it is doing this and if there is a way to make it not do it? The total size is around 5 GB and Ghost splits it into 1 2 GB file and 1 1.8 GB file. The version of Ghost I am using is 2003 and I am running it from a PC-DOS network boot disk.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Sounds like a file system size limitation. FAT16 is limited to 2GB file sizes. What file system is in use on the destination machine? Does the version of PC-DOS you're using support FAT32 at all? I'm not sure what happens with the interaction of file systems and OSes over a network drive, but I'd assume that if PC-DOS has a mapped drive, it will only treat it as a FAT16 drive rather than creating a file size based on the destination file system.

 

[bsobel]

This is normal, as LE said it's do to file system restrictions that may exist on the server.
Bill

 

[KenGr]

Ghost creates the segmented files to allow DOS restore if the operating system is completely wiped out. This is how the program operates and I don't think you can (or should want to) change it. I get 4 files when I back up mine even fully compressed because my boot volume is about 10 GB.