On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:32 , John K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>If anyone has time to look at this problem I would appreciate it. > >I think I am looking for a way to increase the "timeout" in samba (in the >smb.conf file) >for reporting a "down" link or "can't read xyz file". > >However I am writing to you folks because this problem has come up while >using rsync > > > >my problem >========== > >We have a wan in which links from a central linux machine to a nodes which >are xp machines >from 1 to 5 minutes a night. not very common, but it happens. > >we are using samba to mount directories on the remote linux machines to the >local >linux server. (we use samba because we also have xp machines in our network >it is just easier to use this for now). > >We use rsync nightly to backup remote directories to the local linux >server. > >When one of the outages happes during a backup (rsync operation) either >- if I have not set the --timout value in rsync the operation just >continues. Rysnc seems > not to notice that samba is reporting errors and just copies over I assume >a bunch of 0000. > Of course the file is corrupted. I apologize if you already resolved this..I am a bit confused as to why you need to connect via samba for rsync. I do something very similar and rsync handles it all if I have the correct rsync mount points defined in the .conf file > >- if I have set the --timeout value in rsync, in the case of failure rsync >just drops out. Of course if > i set the --timeout value to something like 2 minutes rsync seems to >ignore the samba errors and continues. > >What I would like to do is set a timeout value in samba for reporting errors >from what seems >to be about 30 seconds to something like 6 minutes. Then I could set the >--timeout value in rsync to >something like 5 minutes. > >I can't find in man smb.conf anywhere were you can set something like "if >you can't connect in 30 seconds" then report an error. > ------------------------------------------- Chris McKeever If you want to reply directly to me, please use cgmckeever--at--prupref---dot---com http://www.prupref.com ---- Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
