4.29GB limit?

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4.29GB limit?

I noticed my TM backup always failed after copying 4.29GB of data.
This number is suspicious because it is 4x1024x1024x1024 = 4.29GB

Is there a 4GB limit to time machine?

Btw, all my hard drives are Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatted. Nothing like FAT is in the picture.

iMac Aluminum 24" (mid-2007), Mac OS X (10.5), 3GB RAM, 320GB HD

Posted on Nov 17, 2007 12:22 PM

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Nov 17, 2007 12:24 PM in response to nestea247

No, I'm currently using a machine with a Time Machine backup size of about 179GB.

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Nov 17, 2007 12:57 PM in response to pardthemonster

Sounds like it's bumping into a bad formatting issue. I would reformat the TM drive for the appropriate type of Mac +(PPC or Intel)+. If you recently installed 10.5.1 then you might have to do this anyway.

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Nov 20, 2007 11:21 PM in response to nestea247

I finally solved the problem.

It's just that the HD enclosure (Nexstar NST-350U2 3.5" USB2.0) I was using was problematic. So I went out and bought a new HD enclosure (Nexstar NST-360HF 3.5" USB+Firewire). I used firewire instead of USB (dunno if that helped) and I partitioned my HD using GUID partition map, and since then TM was able to backup successfully.

Gee...Apple should have provided more technical info about TM. So many of us have wasted too much time figuring out how to make it work!

Btw, FYI, TM needs approximately 1.2x of your used space to begin an initial backup. See my other thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1240678&tstart=0

Good luck folks!

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