Re: Exclude file and samba backups

2011-03-22 Thread Aaron Vinson
This is my current exclude list.. nothing seems to work: \\System Volume Information \\System Volume Information\\* \System Volume Information\* \System Volume Information System Volume Information \\System Volume Information \\System Volume Information\\* \System Volume Information\* \System

Exclude file and samba backups

2011-03-14 Thread Aaron Vinson
Amanda Users -- I'm having some difficulty excluding the System Volume Information directory from a full disk backup. The resulting error message looks like this: ? NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \System Volume Information\* My dump definition looks like this: define dumptype samba-serv-high

Re: Exclude file and samba backups

2011-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:21:02PM -0700, Aaron Vinson wrote: Amanda Users -- I'm having some difficulty excluding the System Volume Information directory from a full disk backup. The resulting error message looks like this: ? NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \System Volume Information\*

Re: samba backups and -N option

2006-06-15 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
On 6/14/06, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only recently noticed the -N option to smbtar (-TN for smbclient). This allows backups based on a file's timestamp being newer than a control file. Using the archive bit, as is now done, has several problems. For example, other apps might

Re: samba backups and -N option

2006-06-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:37:52AM -0700, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: On 6/14/06, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only recently noticed the -N option to smbtar (-TN for smbclient). This allows backups based on a file's timestamp being newer than a control file. Using the archive bit,

Re: samba backups and -N option

2006-06-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paddy Sreenivasan schreef: On 6/14/06, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only recently noticed the -N option to smbtar (-TN for smbclient). This allows backups based on a file's timestamp being newer than a control file. Using the archive bit, as is now done, has several problems. For

Re: samba backups and -N option

2006-06-15 Thread Chander Kant
In my testing it seemed the file could be on the direct client, not the indirect PC. But I must admit I was only doing it from the command line. For that I was creating (touch -t ...) the control file on the linux box then smbtar'ing from a windows host. This would mean the samba user

Re: samba backups and -N option

2006-06-15 Thread Chander Kant
Paul Bijnens wrote: Paddy Sreenivasan schreef: On 6/14/06, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only recently noticed the -N option to smbtar (-TN for smbclient). This allows backups based on a file's timestamp being newer than a control file. Using the archive bit, as is now done, has

Re: samba backups

2005-09-11 Thread Gregor Ibic
As I wrote about issues with samba backup, I can now say that backup doesnt stall if I enable compression on server (amanda server), and regulary stalls without compression. Has to be something wrong with pipeing to tar. regards, Gregor

Re: samba backups

2005-09-07 Thread Gregor Ibic
Hi, I checked and there is plenty of space on all drives, and samba does not log anything on smbclient behalf. And I dont run samba server. Strange that the other amada config dumps fine, and this stalls everytime on same spot! regards, Gregor Ibic

Re: samba backups

2005-09-05 Thread Gregor Ibic
Hm, hm, strange. I created a new amanda conf with only that share in disklist and it finishes ok. Could be a problem of indexing? I saw that once a while sendbackup sends index info, for file indexing purpose. Could this be a problem? Where can I trace this out. It seems that is not a

Re: samba backups

2005-09-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:42:36AM +0200, Gregor Ibic wrote: Here is a process list and strace to smbclient and tar. You can see that is stalled at some opening of the file. I modified share name and file name for security reasons. regards, gregor 19432 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh

Re: samba backups

2005-08-31 Thread Gregor Ibic
Here is a process list and strace to smbclient and tar. You can see that is stalled at some opening of the file. I modified share name and file name for security reasons. regards, gregor 19432 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/amdump tape 19442 ?S 0:20

Re: samba backups

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gregor Ibic wrote: I have a problem with backuping one samba share. Backup / smbclient stalls after backuping some data. Files on the server dont have permission to access them, but it should skip them with errors and backup other data, but sendbackup stalls and I have to kill smbclient to

Re: samba backups

2005-08-29 Thread Gregor Ibic
Ok, I wait for 10 hours (ethernity for me), and I see that it backuped about 300MB of a 30GB job. Other shares that work are on the same server, just on the other partition. Then I kill smbclient and amdump resumes till the end of disklist. I will try with . (dot) and report, but I notice that

samba backups

2005-08-28 Thread Gregor Ibic
I have a problem with backuping one samba share. Backup / smbclient stalls after backuping some data. Files on the server dont have permission to access them, but it should skip them with errors and backup other data, but sendbackup stalls and I have to kill smbclient to finish amdump. I dont

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-17 Thread Fran Fabrizio
Just to provide some closure, I sent the relevant details about this bug to samba-technical list, and it turned out to indeed be a Samba bug. A developer sent me a patch last night that seems to have solved the problem. Thanks for everyone's help here! -Fran

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Fran, on Samstag, 17. Jänner 2004 at 19:53 you wrote to amanda-users: FF Just to provide some closure, I sent the relevant details about this bug FF to samba-technical list, and it turned out to indeed be a Samba bug. A FF developer sent me a patch last night that seems to have solved the

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 17 January 2004 13:53, Fran Fabrizio wrote: Just to provide some closure, I sent the relevant details about this bug to samba-technical list, and it turned out to indeed be a Samba bug. A developer sent me a patch last night that seems to have solved the problem. Thanks for

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-17 Thread Fran Fabrizio
Samba 3.0.1. On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:51, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 13:53, Fran Fabrizio wrote: Just to provide some closure, I sent the relevant details about this bug to samba-technical list, and it turned out to indeed be a Samba bug. A developer sent me a patch

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 17 January 2004 17:01, Fran Fabrizio wrote: Samba 3.0.1. On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:51, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 13:53, Fran Fabrizio wrote: Just to provide some closure, I sent the relevant details about this bug to samba-technical list, and it turned out to

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Fran Fabrizio, on Mittwoch, 14. Jänner 2004 at 22:51 you wrote to amanda-users: FF To make a long story short, my attempts to backup a Samba share from a FF W2k3 ADS server are failing in the range of 755698176 - 763534336 bytes FF into the tar operation. I can even rename the files and

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Fran Fabrizio, on Mittwoch, 14. Jänner 2004 at 22:51 you wrote to amanda-users: FF To make a long story short, my attempts to backup a Samba share from a FF W2k3 ADS server are failing in the range of 755698176 - 763534336 bytes FF into the tar operation. I can even rename the files and

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Fran Fabrizio
Do you get any error messages? What does AMANDA tell you? What´s in the logfiles for AMANDA and/or Samba? Amanda reports STRANGE, and the logs show SMB signing errors (which I've googled extensively for with no luck, and posted to the Samba list but no luck there either). The process will be

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Fran Fabrizio
Another fast-google: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2003-October/032249.html I know that signing is working between the server and client at least initially, since I can successfully retrieve 750MB or so of data, and on shares that are smaller than that, I can get the entire

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Fran, on Donnerstag, 15. Jänner 2004 at 14:41 you wrote to amanda-users: You could also test if your backup works with security = share if your setup allows. FF Good idea, just tried it, failed at the same spot. This is seeming more FF and more like a bug and less like a configuration

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Fran Fabrizio
Wow...I see what you've pointed out in the man page. This is what I read in the HOWTO: From the Official Samba-3 HOWTO (Section 6.6.3, page 80): Windows 2003 requires SMB signing. Client-side SMB signing has been implemented in Samba 3.0. Set client use spnego = yes when communicating with a

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Fran, on Donnerstag, 15. Jänner 2004 at 16:13 you wrote to amanda-users: FF Wow...I see what you've pointed out in the man page. This is what I FF read in the HOWTO: From the Official Samba-3 HOWTO (Section 6.6.3, page 80): FF Windows 2003 requires SMB signing. Client-side SMB signing

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Fran Fabrizio
Sorry for not being clear, yes I did test with the configuration you suggested... Here's the [global] that I just tested on your suggestion: -bash-2.05b$ more /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf [global] #realm = ciswinnet.cis.uab.edu workgroup=CISWINNET #security = ADS # have also tried DOMAIN and

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 15 January 2004 08:31, Fran Fabrizio wrote: Do you get any error messages? What does AMANDA tell you? What´s in the logfiles for AMANDA and/or Samba? Amanda reports STRANGE, and the logs show SMB signing errors (which I've googled extensively for with no luck, and posted to the Samba

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Fran, on Donnerstag, 15. Jänner 2004 at 16:46 you wrote to amanda-users: FF -bash-2.05b$ smbclient snapper\\dfs password -U Administrator -W FF CISWINNET -D home -d1 -Tqca /tmp/junkme.tar FF [2004/01/15 09:45:18, 1] client/client.c:do_connect(2597) FF Domain=[CISWINNET] OS=[Windows

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 15 January 2004 08:07, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Fran Fabrizio, on Mittwoch, 14. Jnner 2004 at 22:51 you wrote to amanda-users: FF To make a long story short, my attempts to backup a Samba share from a FF W2k3 ADS server are failing in the range of 755698176 - 763534336 bytes

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread Fran Fabrizio
The only question I would be able to come up with Fran, is: Whats the posibility that the login thru the samba server has a timeout that roughly corresponds to that amount of data transmitted? Hrmm...excellent thought. Let's do some timings and see if it looks suspicious. When I run it on

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread tobias . bluhm
Bluhm/CLE/MS/PHILIPS) Subject:Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data Classification: The only question I would be able to come up with Fran, is: Whats the posibility that the login thru the samba server has a timeout that roughly corresponds

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread tobias . bluhm
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Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-14 Thread Fran Fabrizio
I've also asked about this on the Samba lists but I'm guessing that since we here are in the backup business we're the most likely to have encountered the particular Samba quick I seem to be hitting. To make a long story short, my attempts to backup a Samba share from a W2k3 ADS server are

GNU tar and SAMBA backups

2002-06-14 Thread Kenny MacPherson
I'm moving over to use SAMBA based AMANDA backups, and have to start using gnutar. If my amcheck tells me... ERROR: edinburgh: [GNUTAR program not available] ERROR: edinburgh: [can not read/write /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/.: No such file or directory] Client check: 1 host checked in

Re: GNU tar and SAMBA backups

2002-06-14 Thread Frank Smith
Does /usr/local/bin/tar exist (and is it executable) on edinburgh ? Frank --On Friday, June 14, 2002 16:29:27 +0100 Kenny MacPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm moving over to use SAMBA based AMANDA backups, and have to start using gnutar. If my amcheck tells me... ERROR: edinburgh:

RE: GNU tar and SAMBA backups

2002-06-14 Thread Kenny MacPherson
MacPherson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GNU tar and SAMBA backups Does /usr/local/bin/tar exist (and is it executable) on edinburgh ? Frank --On Friday, June 14, 2002 16:29:27 +0100 Kenny MacPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm moving over to use SAMBA based AMANDA backups, and have

RE: GNU tar and SAMBA backups

2002-06-14 Thread Frank Smith
- From: Frank Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 June 2002 16:48 To: Kenny MacPherson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GNU tar and SAMBA backups Does /usr/local/bin/tar exist (and is it executable) on edinburgh ? Frank --On Friday, June 14, 2002 16:29:27 +0100 Kenny MacPherson [EMAIL

RE: GNU tar and SAMBA backups

2002-06-14 Thread Steve Follmer
Smith'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: GNU tar and SAMBA backups Yes it does!! edinburgh.root(7)= ls -al /usr/local/bin/tar -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 835584 Jun 14 13:08 /usr/local/bin/tar -- Kenny MacPherson IT Manager DDI: +44 131 272 7091 -Original Message- From: Frank

Re: GNU tar and SAMBA backups

2002-06-14 Thread Robert L. Becker Jr.
a new version, get a copy of tar from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/. I started running samba backups a few days before I ran across the first reference to a problem with gnutar 1.13. It turns out that's the version that runs on my smbclient host, yet the indexes displayed by amrecover and the two

Solved -- samba backups offline

2002-02-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
About 2 weeks ago I asked the following: I'm backing up a single W2K machine to my tape server. There are 4 partitions on the windows box. Some nights al 4 partitions are processed normally. Most nights 1 or more of the partitions fail with the query host offline? which obviously it is

Solved -- samba backups offline

2001-12-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
About 2 weeks ago I asked the following: I'm backing up a single W2K machine to my tape server. There are 4 partitions on the windows box. Some nights al 4 partitions are processed normally. Most nights 1 or more of the partitions fail with the query host offline? which obviously it is

samba backups offline

2001-12-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
I'm backing up a single W2K machine to my tape server. There are 4 partitions on the windows box. Some nights al 4 partitions are processed normally. Most nights 1 or more of the partitions fail with the query host offline? which obviously it is not as the other partitions are backing up. I've

Re: Samba Backups

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
I have compiled Samba 2.4.2 with: Do you mean Amanda 2.4.2? Why not 2.4.2p1? ./configure --with-libsmbclient (and the other options are the same as the ones that worked before) There is no --with-libsmbclient option to ./configure with Amanda. What were you trying to accomplish? [adlcds1 ]#

Samba Backups

2001-03-20 Thread David Lloyd
Hmmm! I have compiled Samba 2.4.2 with: ./configure --with-libsmbclient (and the other options are the same as the ones that worked before) Added: [adlcds1 ]# cat /etc/amandapass //WEBAPP/Web asifiwouldtellapubliclist Added: [adlcds1 ]# cat disklist adlcds1 //WEBAPP/Web comp-tar BUT

Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups

2000-12-05 Thread Roland E. Lipovits
Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just starting out, but I understood that excludes didn't work with samba shares when using GNUTAR. I've been working around that limitation, AFAIK exclude works with samba in 2.4.2 but didn't work in 2.4.1p1. The results of my backups verify this.

Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups

2000-12-05 Thread Eric Wadsworth
On 5 Dec 2000, Roland E. Lipovits wrote: Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just starting out, but I understood that excludes didn't work with samba shares when using GNUTAR. I've been working around that limitation, AFAIK exclude works with samba in 2.4.2 but didn't work in

Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups

2000-12-05 Thread Eric Wadsworth
to suggestions... if the excludes actually work on samba shares, let me know! --- Eric On 5 Dec 2000, Roland E. Lipovits wrote: I'm using samba-backups with an exclude-statement (specified in the disklist-file). As far as I read from the files in /tmp/amanda the exlusion is only used when

Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups

2000-12-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:08:03AM +0100, Roland E. Lipovits wrote: I'm using samba-backups with an exclude-statement (specified in the disklist-file). As far as I read from the files in /tmp/amanda the exlusion is only used when backuping, not when estimating. Bug or feature? (BTW: amanda