Hi, our BackupPC server with about 70 clients runs Debian 5.0 Lenny (amd64) with the Debian backuppc package version 3.1.0-4lenny1 and smbclient 3.2.5 (Debian package version 2:3.2.5-4lenny6) installed.
The upgrade to Lenny and therefore Samba 3.2 solved a lot of problems with Windows Vista, but also created some new ones. One of them is very strange: Since the upgrade to Lenny I have the following smbclient behaviour with currently at least one Vista client with a configuration similar to the following one: $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'; $Conf{SmbShareName} = ['C$']; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = ['/Experiment', '/Users/foobar', '/Program Files']; $Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'backuppc'; $Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = 'nottherealpassword'; XferLog says, BackupPC is running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\fnord.example.net\\C\$ -U backuppc -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc - /Experiment /Users/foobar /Program\ Files This looks reasonable for me. The interesting thing is the following error message: full backup started for share C$ Xfer PIDs are now 23127,23126 [ skipped 46 lines ] NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND listing \Users\Users\* ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [ skipped 241491 lines ] tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 221291 filesExist, 11894377918 sizeExist, 7358160170 sizeExistComp, 221679 filesTotal, 12023104085 sizeTotal If I reduce $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = ['/Experiment', '/Users/foobar', '/Program Files']; to $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = ['/Experiment', '/Users, '/Program Files']; this strange error vanishes, but I have tons of error messages because not all files in \Users are accessible. (And other problems like nearly no files backed up, but all directories created. But this seems to be another problem, and less esoteric.) And if I switch back to a $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} based configuration, the problem is gone, too, but the configuration tends to become unreadable and unmanagable. I can also reproduce this problem on the commandline, so it looks to me to as if this could be a pure smbclient bug -- if there isn't something bogus in the commandline options or parameters to smbclient: backu...@backuppc:~ $ /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\fnord.example.net\\C\$ -U backuppc -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc - /Experiment /Users/foobar /Program\ Files > /scratch/fnord.tar Enter backuppc's password: Domain=[FNORD] OS=[Windows Vista (TM) Business 6000] Server=[Windows Vista (TM) Business 6.0] tarmode is now full, system, hidden, noreset, verbose directory \Experiment\ directory \Experiment\something\ directory \Experiment\something\Images\ 20669 ( 237.5 kb/s) \Experiment\something\Images\fnord_1903.png 20604 ( 6707.0 kb/s) \Experiment\something\Images\fnord_1904.png [...] 20533 ( 3342.0 kb/s) \Experiment\something\Images\fnord_2023.png 20613 ( 2875.7 kb/s) \Experiment\something\Images\fnord_2024.png 2629 ( 213.9 kb/s) \Experiment\something\peaks.png directory \Users\Users\ NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND listing \Users\Users\* directory \Program Files\ directory \Program Files\7-Zip\ 85664 ( 3802.6 kb/s) \Program Files\7-Zip\7-zip.chm 69632 ( 4533.3 kb/s) \Program Files\7-Zip\7-zip.dll 599552 (14637.5 kb/s) \Program Files\7-Zip\7z.dll 147968 ( 7605.3 kb/s) \Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe [...] Anyone seen this, too, or having an idea why smbclient tries to access the (non-existent) \Users\Users although it hasn't been requested on the command line? Or have I missed something? Kind regards, Axel Beckert -- Axel Beckert <beck...@phys.ethz.ch> support: +41 44 633 26 68 IT Services Group, HPT D 17 voice: +41 44 633 41 89 Departement of Physics, ETH Zurich CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/