On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:57:55AM -0800 or thereabouts, Don Wilson wrote: > > I have fooled around with linux somewhat but I am still very much a newbie so it is >very possible that I am just doing something simple wrong. I am having trouble >trying to backup a RH7.1 file server. I am trying to make an archive backup of files >using cp -a and I am running samba and trying to backup files to a w2k server on the >network. I have successfully mounted the w2k server using the command mount -t smbfs >/backup. The problem I have is that when using cp -a the seconds of the timestamp is >sometimes different on the w2k computer then on the RH server. The seconds of the >timestamp seems to round down to an even number of seconds. I have repeated this >problem on a RH8.0 server copying to a WinXP Pro computer so it doesn't appear to be >a problem that a newer version of samba (the RH7.1 computer has samba 2.2.2 on it) >would fix. I have searched the web for this and haven't been able to see anything so >I suspect I am just doing something weird. Any help would b! e ! > greatly appreciated. >
This sounds like you might have 'dos_filetime_resolution = yes' in your smb.conf. This option rounds file timestamps to the nearest even second. -- Andrew Pasquale -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
