On Saturday 27 July 2002 01:52, Michael Perry wrote:
>I decided to focus on getting smbclient backups working with
> amanda so read the docs/samba stuff and added relevant entries to
> my disklist file and also ran amcheck a few times.  I am running
> amanda on a Debian Unstable system with a very recent CVS version
> of Samba that is in the unstable tree of debian.  The tape device
> is a ecrix vxa-1 which has worked flawlessly backing up bsd and
> linux systems.  The evening backup just concluded and I got the
> backup report from amanda.  The message is filled with errors
> like this:
>
>
>? ERROR: string overflow by 10 in safe_strcpy [\Documents and
>+Settings\mperry\Local Settings\Temp]
>? ERROR: string overflow by 18 in safe_strcpy [\Documents and
>+Settings\mperry\Local Settings\Temp]
>? ERROR: string overflow by 16 in safe_strcpy [\Documents and
>+Settings\mperry\Local Settings\Temp]
>? ERROR: string overflow by 20 in safe_strcpy [\Documents and
>+Settings\mperry\Local Settings\Temp]
>
>and several NT sharing violations.
>
I wonder if this might be related to the eol conventions differences 
between the machines, some using a lf, some a cr, and some a combo 
of both. I haven't fooled with it myself as I don't have any 
winderz boxes here, but ISTR there is a line in smb.conf that tells 
samba to translate that stuff.  man smb.conf comes to mind...

OTOH, I could be full of it...  In which case, ignore my mutterings. 
:-)

>Being a newbie at the samba and smbclient backups, I am wondering
> what these repeated errors mean.  Most of them occur in the
> "Documents and Settings" folder.
>
>The system being backed up is a Windows 2000 pro box.
>
>Thanks for any enlightenment.  BTW, I set up /etc/amandapass per
> the readme documentation to backup the C$ share and I am an
> administrator on that system with an admin login.
>
>Amcheck runs with no problems at all.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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