i mounted a share, shared on winxp, on my gentoo linux box via mount -t smbfs.. everything seems to work - seems. When i started to backup files with rdiff-backup, i noticed that it reported about new and deleted files, yet those were never deleted and are still present on the source share on the windows machine. I thought it might be a bug in rdiff-backup, yet that is not the case, ls /share | wc reports very often 509, sometimes even 508, 507 and 506 files, even though there are 510 files in the directory on the share.
Ok I thought, maybe a bug in a recent samba version or something - yet ive tried it on two gentoo machines, one using kernel 2.6/samba 3.0.1,gcc 3.3.2, and the other one kernel 2.4.23/samba 2.2.8a/gcc 3.2.3 - and ive also tried it with another windows box, the result is the same. When i access the share via a windows box, it works ok and always shows 510 files.
Each backup process, which checked about 40.000 files, only a few files were missing, so when you only check folders with only a few files you might not notice this at all..
I really hope someone can help me here, a backup with missing files aint really nice
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