Saturday, September 13, 2008

End of Media encountered while backing up to non-removable media

I was getting this error on SBS 2003, Small Business Server 2003 when backing up to a removeable USB drive:

End of Media encountered while backing up to non-removable media.
The operation was ended.


The drive had plenty of space.

The problem was that the external drive was formatted as FAT, and all the backup files went to 4GB and then it quit, since that is the limit for FAT. The drive had to be converted to NTFS. You can use this command to convert it to NTFS:

convert e: /fs:ntfs /v

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