I'm attempting to do my first backup via Samba. The first night it failed, which was due to me not having the latest version of Amanda to work with Samba 3. I installed Amanda 2.4.4p2. It ran again last night, and I had partial success - it improved from FAILED to STRANGE. The amount of data in the dump is too small, so it clearly missed some areas. There were a lot of Server packet had invalid SMB signature! error messages. I can't really tell why it would get some of the data but not all - it looks like it timed out, because it starts to fail inside of \home\faculty\bryant and then it continues to fail at \home\faculty\c*, \home\faculty\g* (there are no directories starting with d e or f in \home\faculty), etc... and then continues to fail on the rest of the dirs in \home.
So, is my authentication timing out? There is at least one faculty user directory before where it started failing (\home\faculty\barnard) and the earlier part of \home\faculty\bryant\ which apparently was backed up just fine. Here's the log output: /-- keep.cis.u //snapper/dfs/home lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [keep.cis.uab.edu://snapper/dfs/home level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/smbclient sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/bin/smbclient -f... - sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz sendbackup: info end ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] libsmb/clientgen.c:cli_receive_smb(121) ? SMB Signature verification failed on incoming packet! ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(698) ? Error reading file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\backups\backup20011126.zip : Server packet had invalid SMB signature! ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(733) ? Didn't get entire file. size=50316714, nread=46322640 ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\backups\b (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\backups\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\backups\b (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\backups\) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\c\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\f\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\f\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\f\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\H\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\I\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\I\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\J\* ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\P (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\Images\Y\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\M\* ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\u (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\u (\home\faculty\bryant\bryantback-brblt\) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\b\* ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\f (\home\faculty\bryant\) ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:do_atar(654) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! opening remote file \home\faculty\bryant\J (\home\faculty\bryant\) ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\bryant\w\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\c\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\c\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\g\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\j\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\j\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\m\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\p\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\p\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\r\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\r\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\r\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\r\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\s\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\t\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\faculty\w\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\f\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\g\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\g\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\o\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\s\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\u\* ? Server packet had invalid SMB signature! listing \home\u\* ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:process_tar(1433) ? tar: dumped 4376 files and directories ? [2004/01/13 03:12:30, 0] client/clitar.c:process_tar(1434) | Total bytes written: 763533824 sendbackup: size 745639 sendbackup: end \-------- Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653