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
Thanks for replying chris,
I don't need samba for rsync per se. We use samba for other reasons. It would be just convinient. However what is an rync mount point? I should go read about this. Do you run an rsync deamon?
From: McKeever Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "John K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Samba] samba & rsync Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:01:13 -0600
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.
>
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