Hey there people... I hope this isn't too off topic, as it's related to Samba, but only while using Amanda, as far as I can tell.
I was wondering if anybody else has had these types of issues while backing up Windows machines via samba (hopefully I'm not the only person trying to do something so silly)... Every morning I get the Amanda Mail Report that is >3 Megs long, filled mostly with these types of errors (although all other errors are within normal parameters): /-- localhost //mulder/c$ lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [localhost://mulder/c$ level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/smbclient sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/smbclient -f... - sendbackup: info end | added interface ip=192.168.100.10 bcast=192.168.100.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 ? ERROR: string overflow by 5 in safe_strcpy [\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application ] ? ERROR: string overflow by 22 in safe_strcpy [\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application ] ? ERROR: string overflow by 91 in safe_strcpy [\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application ] ? ERROR: string overflow by 32 in safe_strcpy [\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application ] ? ERROR: string overflow by 22 in safe_strcpy [\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application ] [...a lot more of the same...] | tar: dumped 20796 files and directories | Total bytes written: 2097137152 sendbackup: size 2047986 sendbackup: end \-------- For some background information, I'm running this on Debian Sid (because the machine has to support passing authentication to a Win2k Domain Controller). The version of Amanda is 2.4.3-1, Samba is 2.999+3.0.alpha21-5 (which works well in all other capacities, such as authentication and file sharing, etc). I'm backing up 7 unix machines (none that have these errors in the log), as well as 11 windows machines onto the tape. Interestingly enough, I'm backing up one unix machine over SMB rather than over the amanda client, and it doesn't show these problems in the log like the windows ones do. I googled the heck of this problem (as well as checked samba and amanda lists), and found absolutely nothing that seems to be of relevence, aside from these errors showing up in other parts of Samba code. Oh, and the files CAN be restored successfully, so they are being backed up. Any ideas of what it is or where to start? Thanks in advance... -Dave
