Hi. Stefan, thanks for your ongoing support. I believe your mothertongue is German as well but I will go on writing in English so everybody can participate
In meantime I found in several other newsgroups that I'm not the only one, but I did not find a solution) >Hey, Carsten, > > am Montag, 17. November 2003 um 12:28 hast Du geschrieben: > No, I'm not really "taring". Right now I'm using following command to mount > a share on the windows box: > > smbmount //ntsrvsr3/cmdhp5 /mnt/backupsmb -o username=kwhadm,dmask=777 > > I also tried "mount -f smbfs ...."; but this failed as well. % What do your logfiles tell you when you try this? Set loglevel to 2 % and look that up. Good idea. I did not know that there are any logfiles. Can you give me a hint how to switch them on or switch them to level 2? Thanks. > Some more descriptions: > I have a Windows-2000-domain with ten W2K servers. One of the servers is my > backup server which has a share for each of the other servers where they > can put > their database-backups. As well I have a Linux box running a database; it > also > has to put its database backup to a share (named above). % Off topic: Why not use Linux w/ Samba as backup-server? Yippie. I was wondering how long it might take before this question will come up. Yes, I did. And: the other way around may work (see a little later in that mail). BUT: I HAVE TO USE WINDOWS. (to many arguments in this company to tell). > A few words on my database: I'm running SAP DB 7.3. It has the option to > backup the database either on a tape or on into a file. If using > "file-backup" this > file can be anywhere on the linux, either in the local file system or in > NFS or in > SAMBA. SAP DB does not care on that as long as it can use a mount. > In Windows this works out perfectly for me (same technique). > > Ive tried FTP, SAMBA and NFS: nothing can backup more than 2 or 4 Gigabyte. > Ive tried Suse Enterprise 8, Suse 8.2, Mandrake 8.1: same problem > everywhere. > At home I tried to manage it with XP-Professional and Suse Linux 8.2; there > I've tested a new compiled kernel and samba 3.0.1: same problem. > > Sorry, but I'm getting "frustrated". % I understand. Have you already thought of the possibility that the % limit lies in the Linux-Version of your SAP DB? AFAI understand the % problem occurs ONLY with that one DB. Yes I did. I have SAP support and asked them: they dont have any limit inside. % Can you create a db-backup-file on a local partition of that machine? Not yet anymore. The db exceeded the 50 % limit of the harddrive 2 weeks ago. Right now the only backup I can do is on tape. This is not working as well; but that's a different story. But before that date (it was shortly after installation of the db) we made a backup on harddrive. That worked out fine. With samba I've created a share on LINUX to access the backup's folder and we were able to squeeze the 55 GB out of the box. But that option is not available to me anymore. % Consult your manuals and support to make sure SAP has no limit on % doing that so we can focus on the problem. I did. SAP has no limit (un/fortunately). Stefan, do you think there may be a "switch" in the kernel, or something with my GLIBC? I've found some people telling others to create a new kernel with a new GLIBC?!?! I dont know if that really makes sense. In my eyes I would have made more sense to choose a newer version of SAMBA. % Keep up your head, it will work out ;-) % Stefan G. Weichinger % mailto:monitor at oopsdotcodotat I'm trying to keep my head up. With Linux books .... ;-) Regards, Carsten Löffler ______________________________________________________________________ This message is intended for the addressee or its representative only. Any form of unauthorized use, publication, reproduction, copying or disclosure of the content of this e-mail is not permitted. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message and its contents, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all its attachments subsequently. command ag -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
