Hello, well, i have a weird problem:
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
I don't have anything that would help solve the problem, but it might be
helpful to know that you aren't alone.
My post to the list about it:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8safe=offselm=19
W2K-6UJ-11%40gated-at.bofh.it
Other similar reports:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=sambam=102458988807544w=2
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9603.1/0579.html
http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20030811.020338.5e7083b5.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2002-November/025587.html
It seems to be a problem on the Windows side--I've verified that my Windows
XP box is skipping files when sending directory listings--, but if I use a
smbclient command to retrieve a listing then there are no missing items, so
it also appears to be related to how the request is made from the Linux
side.
I looked into breaking my directory requests up into smaller chunks, but
anything with a wildcard in it seems to submit a search pattern of '\*'
which I suppose is then filtered on the client side.
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