It is doing a full backup so the resultant file is 28 gigs. Event viewer
doesn't appear to have recorded the event. I have 768 mg of ram. The
external hard drive is 250 gigs. Sorry but don't anything about paging file.
--
Arthur


"GHalleck" wrote:

>
> arthur wrote:
>
> > I am running windows xp home edition on a dell pentium. I am using windows
> > backup to maxtor external hard drive. Occaisionally the back up will freeze.
> > The problem is intermittent, but occurs most with full backups. Any ideas
> > what might be causing the problem?
>
> Need more information, such as size of files being backed up, the
> size of the paging file, amount of RAM installed, external HD size,
> etc. Also, any additional information from Event Viewer?
>