Are you tar-ing onto the remote drive? tar is limited to 2gb unless you use the 'gnu format' archive option....
John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==========================================- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development University of Newcastle >-----Original Message----- >From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 14 November 2003 12:53 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Samba] Backup from Linux onto Win2K-share > > >Guten Tag [EMAIL PROTECTED], > >am Freitag, 14. November 2003 um 13:35 schrieben Sie: > >> I'm sorry, but you're wrong. >> >> I'm using NTFS (its a Win 2000 Advanced Server with ~ 1 TB Harddrive) >> because of security. > >Ok. > >> I'm backing upwith SAP DB from a Windows-server to >Windows-server without >> any of this problems. All other servers (except Linux) can >backup tons >> of Gigabyte (the largest one is 120 GB) to that Windows-2000. >> >> I only have this problem with my Linux boxes. And I can >resolve on any >> other Linux box running any distribution (Mandrake, RedHat, >Suse ...). > >You mean, you have this problem with ALL your linux-boxes? > >Please describe in more detail, I haven�t got the whole picture yet. > >You have a Linux/Samba-machine which tries to put files to a >W2K-share? > >Using smbclient? smbtar? >Have you mounted the share via smbfs, maybe? > >regards, >Stefan G. Weichinger >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
