Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 21:57, Bill Hudacek wrote:
>
> Is there some subtle difference in your $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd} and
> $Conf{SmbClientIncrCmd} entries? Can you execute something
> resembling the expanded incremental command manually with
> smbclient?
>
Thanks, Les, for the reply. I've been busy, and that's one of the
things I've checked.
What it comes down to, is....Samba 3.0.23-1 broke my system. I'd setuid
the smbclient and mount.cifs commands on disk; it complained until I
removed that permission bit from those files. That didn't fix the
backuppc problems (though I held my breath as I tested again).
[It turns out smbmnt is /not/ based on "libsmb" - which is why samba was
complaining and bailing - nothing based on this library can be suid
anymore, fyi...so I simply setuid that executable. Bob's your uncle.]
Prepare for this upgrade, folks! They're trying to improve the world
over at Samba-land, and we're gonna be hurtin' until we figure all this out.
I still have no idea why logins only fail on incrementals.
I've upgraded to BackupPC v3.0.0beta0, but the smbclient command lines
for SMB-based incremental, full, and restore are the same as in past
versions :-/ No satisfaction there. I tested anyway, but you already
know how that story turns out.
I've been through the entire release notes for this version of Samba -
my prev version was 3.0.14a-2 (fedora core-4) - and there are literally
thousands of changes. My eyes are bleeding. Nothing jumped out at me,
no eureka moment...
<rant>We need a Linux kernel approach for samba, it would seem, where
even numbers and odd numbers are used for stable versions and for
massive changes, respectively - and those unstable versions are not
pushed out to every computer in the world! </rant>
Is anyone else running this version of samba? If so, is it working for
you? I'll work this problem from both ends....if anyone has any info, I
would be grateful.
I'd go back, but the idea is that sofwtware changes are *for the
better*, and the Samba guys have as good a rep as anyone. I'm going to
try to fix this before I punt and downgrade.
I'm simply running a full backup on each machine that has not been
backed up for the last week or so....! I would have punted days ago if
I didn't have this escape hatch.
Complicating things is the fact that I have this half-a-terabyte volume,
and it's 95% full, because I have it retaining nearly every backup I've
ever done....so I really reduced the retention figures, and now
BackupPC_trashClean is going nuts - it's already returned nearly 4
GB...and I have this feeling it'll be running all night - or all weekend :-)
More as it happens....
Thought for the day: Fedora makes "trailblazers" of us all, I think,
when you have an untested combination of software - like BackupPC and Samba!
/bill
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