Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Dale Renton
Newer versions of smbclient stop processing the rest of the directory when an error is encountered. Perhaps it is related to this. See https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10605 I did have the excludes working properly, but can't remember the exact syntax. In the end smbclient was just to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Christian Völker
Am 21.08.2014 um 17:27 schrieb Les Mikesell: > One thing that might not be obvious is that smbclient reads your > /etc/samba/smb.conf file where you may have settings intended for the > server side of samba. I can't think of any settings that would cause > this behavior, but it is something to be a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: >> > There's definitely something funny going on. > > Before I stopped using SMB, I can confirm that its behavior was more as > expected -- I would get errors on open files, the errors would show up in > the logs, and open files would not cause

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Michael Stowe
> Hi all, > >>> SMB can't back up open files (unless you're doing something exotic, I >>> suppose -- so you *should* be seeing errors whenever it comes across a >>> locked file, unless you've specifically excluded them. >> Indeed, that strange. As I usually don't change any log settings it is >> ev

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 08/21 03:15 , Christian Völker wrote: > hiberfil.sys is not reconned as "exclude" as it tries to backup anyways. So > what syntax is to be used correctly? Try this: '/hiberfil.sys', Seems to work for me, tho I'm using rsync instead of smbtar. If that doesn't work, try '\hiberfil.sys', instead

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Christian Völker
Hi all, >> SMB can't back up open files (unless you're doing something exotic, I >> suppose -- so you *should* be seeing errors whenever it comes across a >> locked file, unless you've specifically excluded them. > Indeed, that strange. As I usually don't change any log settings it is > even more

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Christian Völker
Hi Michael, > SMB can't back up open files (unless you're doing something exotic, I > suppose -- so you *should* be seeing errors whenever it comes across a > locked file, unless you've specifically excluded them. Indeed, that strange. As I usually don't change any log settings it is even more str

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Michael Stowe
> Hi all, > > I'm using BackupPC since years for a couple of Linux servers and it > works like a charm. > > I have included some Windows XP/7 machines, too. Appears to work like a > charm, too. > > Unfortunately I recently realized on a single machine the backed up > directory structure is not corr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories

2011-04-13 Thread Lee A. Connell
No SELinux on this system. Some directories are fine, but others are not. -Original Message- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:43 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories On 4/13/2011

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories

2011-04-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/13/2011 11:26 AM, Lee A. Connell wrote: > Sorry that I am posting this again, I deleted all my mailing-list > emails, so I didn’t see if there were any responses. I have a backuppc > server that says it is backing up my hosts just fine but when I click on > the hosts it says directory is empty

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty directories for backups

2011-04-05 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Lee A. Connell wrote at about 09:02:22 -0400 on Tuesday, April 5, 2011: > I am having a strange issue on only one of my backed up hosts. I have 12 > consecutive days of reported good backups, but when I go to click on one > of the backup numbers it is blank. I checked in the directory path > wi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty directories

2007-10-21 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Brian Goodyear wrote on 13.10.2007 at 21:02:23 [[BackupPC-users] Empty directories]: > Hi. Well I managed to get BackupPC working to back up localhost to an > external usb diskor at least it says it did the backup and the log > files show the files etc but in fact the directories are th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty directories with full, but not with incr backup

2007-06-22 Thread Craig Barratt
Gian writes: > I am using a Linux machine to backup 76 windows computers and 3 Linux > servers. All backup is via rsync - Cygwin on the Windows machines. > Incremental backups are working fine, but full backups of the windows > machines contain files and directories 1 level deep and nothing else.