At 01:03 AM 1/27/2008, Linda W wrote:
jeffunit wrote:
I ran my python program locally on the linux system, and it
reported that roughly
100 md5sums for files differed.
Any ideas how to track down this problem
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Could it be a code-page conversion issue?
I am not sure, but I think that involves translating language encoding
from one form to another. I hope that neither samba nor windows explorer
does that silently.
Have you tried copying the file over with "cp" from
windows to your server? (cp from 'cygwin')?
No, but I will try that today.
Have you tried comparing some of the differing files and
looking for a pattern?
Yes. I wrote a modified version of cmp that tries to list all byte differences.
I was looking at an iso image of some linux distribution.
There were three bytes that differed, and if I recall correctly,
they were all one bit differences.
Does the "change" get "undone" if you use explorer to
copy the file back from the linbox to the winbox?
I haven't tried that, but even if it does, I consider it a bug if
a file isn't stored remotely, byte-for-byte the same.
I use a similar setup to backup my files -- though I use
'rsync' from windows to keep the server copy synchronized (which
gets backed up nightly w/xfsdump.
I have tried rsync several times. I don't trust it, because even when I give it
the --delete option, it has never reliably deleted extraneous files
at the dest dir.
I can't say why, exactly, but I wouldn't trust windows
"explorer" to copy over such a large number of files.
That is certainly something to consider. My problem isn't that files
don't get copied
though; my problem is a few bits get flipped in the gigabytes I transfer. That
is scarier to me, as a missing file is much more obvious than a few
bits flipped.
Both of my machines are as reliable as I can make them, for example both have
ecc memory. If there are setting for samba to do more checksums during transfer
or to use tcp only, I will happily try them out.
Right now I am installing a second os disk, so I can switch os/samba
configurations
quickly, as well as remove the old os disk as a possible problem.
thanks,
jeff
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