[dba-Tech] WinXP Compress File Limitation

I believe  some version of Winzip has a limit of 2GB.

Instead zipping those files you could use windows backup to backup those
files in a backupfile. I'm however not sure if WinXP does compression on
backup to a file...


Erwin

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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] WinXP Compress File Limitation

Well you would need probably 4-8 gig of free space in addition to the
file, depending on what language wrote the compression utility there are
things like a 2 gig limit on text strings in languages like VB and what
degree of compression you obtain.

Ken Stoker wrote:

>Does anyone know if there is a file size limit when using Windows XP's 
>file compression utility?  I have been trying to compress a 4GB SS2K 
>backup file with a password and it is only able to compress what 
>appears to be a portion of the file.  When I extract the file and the 
>try to restore to another machine, the database files are corrupted.
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>Thanks for your help.
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>Ken
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