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 AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.09% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
