Hi, Marc N. Cannava wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 03:07, Christoph Scheeder wrote: [....] >>If to the linux-box, it could be possible your versions of smbclient >>and tar disagree in the handling of incremental backups, and tar >>simply missinterprets the last incremental generated by smbclient. >>This is a wild guess, but i've seen many strange things happen when >>WIN-xx has been involved. >> > > This is a good description of what I think is going on; Amanda/gtar have > no trouble doing an accurate restore when restoring files from another > Linux partition.. [....] > amanda@sevenof9 amanda]$ tar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 Good, this is a version that should be ok. > [amanda@sevenof9 amanda]$ rpm -qa | grep samba > samba-common-2.2.3a-6 > samba-client-2.2.3a-6 Sorry to correct you, latest recommended version of samba on samba-homepage is 2.2.4, but i'll bet it won't do anything good to upgrade to that version, but give you lots of trouble if you have samba as pdc and nt boxes as clients, but thats little off-topic... > > > This is running on RH Linux 7.3; is it possible that I should need to > downgrade my version of tar to 1.12 to get this to work? > > Is anyone else running Samba backup/restores with gtar 1.13.x, and does > it work for you? > > I'm willing to downgrade to gtar 1.12 if that will help.. I don't think it will help you. But something other comes to my mind: what version of windows do the files reside on? WIN-NT/2000/XP ? if yes, has the backup user the permision to see and read these files? if that's not the problem i've reached the end of my knowledge. Perhaps you realy found a bug in smbclient. > >>Recomended versions are 1.12 with patches from amanda-page or >>the latest version from alpha.gnu.org. The 1.13-versions comming with most >>linux-distros are buggy and partialy dangerous for your data. >> > > Ouch! So even gtar 1.13.25 is buggy and bad for my backups? > No, but latest version is supposed to have more bugs fixed then older ones. AFAIR 1.13.25 was the first version after 1.12 most people on this list agreed to work correct with amanda. Christoph
