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I have a Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit system that I am trying to make a system image backup via Windows 8.1's System Image Backup feature. The backup destination is a network share, but the image creation is failing with the following error:

The version does not support this version of the file format

After some investigation, it appears this is due to the network share (a Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220) not supporting sparse files. The consensus out on the web seems to be that your smb.conf file on the NAS needs to have strict allocate = yes added, in order to support sparse files. However, as far as I can tell with the BlackArmor NAS 220, there is no way to edit the smb.conf file (and I'm not even 100% positive they're running Samba--but I bet they are).

Some more searching revealed another possible option here:

If you don't need to exclude files from your backup, use the
"-allcritical" option in your command line. AS IN:

wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:backup1backupdrive1 -include:c:
-user:administrator -password:xxxx -systemState -vssFull -allcritical -quiet

This changes it to Block backup and gets rid of the error.

I'm trying to do a complete backup, so no exclusions are wanted or needed. So, i tried this, and got the exact same error (only this time it was on the command line, rather than a GUI dialog).

Is there any way to do backups to a network share that doesn't support sparse files via Windows 8.1's System Image Backup facility?

Alternatively, is there a way to enable the strict allocate = yes on a BlackArmor NAS 220?

windows windows-8 backup nas

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I have a Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit system that I am trying to make a system image backup via Windows 8.1's System Image Backup feature. The backup destination is a network share, but the image creation is failing with the following error:

The version does not support this version of the file format

After some investigation, it appears this is due to the network share (a Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220) not supporting sparse files. The consensus out on the web seems to be that your smb.conf file on the NAS needs to have strict allocate = yes added, in order to support sparse files. However, as far as I can tell with the BlackArmor NAS 220, there is no way to edit the smb.conf file (and I'm not even 100% positive they're running Samba--but I bet they are).

Some more searching revealed another possible option here:

If you don't need to exclude files from your backup, use the
"-allcritical" option in your command line. AS IN:

wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:backup1backupdrive1 -include:c:
-user:administrator -password:xxxx -systemState -vssFull -allcritical -quiet

This changes it to Block backup and gets rid of the error.

I'm trying to do a complete backup, so no exclusions are wanted or needed. So, i tried this, and got the exact same error (only this time it was on the command line, rather than a GUI dialog).

Is there any way to do backups to a network share that doesn't support sparse files via Windows 8.1's System Image Backup facility?

Alternatively, is there a way to enable the strict allocate = yes on a BlackArmor NAS 220?

windows windows-8 backup nas

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I have a Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit system that I am trying to make a system image backup via Windows 8.1's System Image Backup feature. The backup destination is a network share, but the image creation is failing with the following error:

The version does not support this version of the file format

After some investigation, it appears this is due to the network share (a Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220) not supporting sparse files. The consensus out on the web seems to be that your smb.conf file on the NAS needs to have strict allocate = yes added, in order to support sparse files. However, as far as I can tell with the BlackArmor NAS 220, there is no way to edit the smb.conf file (and I'm not even 100% positive they're running Samba--but I bet they are).

Some more searching revealed another possible option here:

If you don't need to exclude files from your backup, use the
"-allcritical" option in your command line. AS IN:

wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:backup1backupdrive1 -include:c:
-user:administrator -password:xxxx -systemState -vssFull -allcritical -quiet

This changes it to Block backup and gets rid of the error.

I'm trying to do a complete backup, so no exclusions are wanted or needed. So, i tried this, and got the exact same error (only this time it was on the command line, rather than a GUI dialog).

Is there any way to do backups to a network share that doesn't support sparse files via Windows 8.1's System Image Backup facility?

Alternatively, is there a way to enable the strict allocate = yes on a BlackArmor NAS 220?

windows windows-8 backup nas

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You need to enable ssh access to your Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220.

Here is a link to how one person did it:
http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2011/07/10/1/enabling-ssh-on-the-seagate-blackarmor-nas-220

I am sure there are others.

This will require some knowledge on how to use linux.

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You need to enable ssh access to your Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220.

Here is a link to how one person did it:
http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2011/07/10/1/enabling-ssh-on-the-seagate-blackarmor-nas-220

I am sure there are others.

This will require some knowledge on how to use linux.

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You need to enable ssh access to your Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220.

Here is a link to how one person did it:
http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2011/07/10/1/enabling-ssh-on-the-seagate-blackarmor-nas-220

I am sure there are others.

This will require some knowledge on how to use linux.

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answered Apr 4 '14 at 23:28

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You need to enable ssh access to your Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220.

Here is a link to how one person did it:
http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2011/07/10/1/enabling-ssh-on-the-seagate-blackarmor-nas-220

I am sure there are others.

This will require some knowledge on how to use linux.

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answered Apr 4 '14 at 23:28

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answered Apr 4 '14 at 23:28

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answered Apr 4 '14 at 23:28

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