i have experienced this issue with large files on smb/cifs shares before.
my solution was to change transfer method to rsyncd and install deltacopy on
the windows machine.(deltacopy is just a nice windows fronted to the cygwin
rsync daemon. easy to install on configure)
On 10/19/07, Toni Van Remortel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> shacky wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm using BackupPC 3.0.0 to backup two identical Windows server which
> > shares the whole file system to my linux server, and I access it using
> > the SMB Xfer method.
> > BackupPC connects correctly to the shares but after a while the backup
> > hangs and I get this error:
> >
> > "Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000 milliseconds
> > opening remote file \Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\jre\lib\rt.jar
> > (\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\jre\lib\)"
> >
> > The backup process ever hangs on the same file.
> >
> > Where do you think the problem could be?
> >
> Do you have an anti-virus program active on your Windows server?
> I've had issues with Panda, who would block file reads until it had
> scanned the whole file. So if your rt.jar is quite big, and your server
> hasn't too much power to scan it quickly, it might result in this timeout.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Toni Van Remortel, MSc
> Linux System Engineer @ Precision Operations NV
> +32 3 452 92 26 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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