Re: [Samba] why xcopy /d doesn't work

[sgtphou]

Curious. I wonder if this is related to problems me and others have been having
when trying to keep linux / windows shares in sync using rsync? In short, we
would try to sync up, and some files that weren't modified would get re-sent,
or even deleted, even when they still existed. The next pass, the deleted files
would get re-sent, and a totally different set of files would be deleted even
though the exist, repeat.

We have not found a resolution, and aren't sure if it's samba, rsync, or both.
Also using samba 3.

Quoting James Boorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hi Germano,

 I just found your post regarding Samba and xcopy /d switch at
 http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-October/000699.html.

 This is also driving me mad. I was interested to know if you ever found a
 way around this problem ? It only seems to be a problem for me with 2000
 and XP workstation. 98 works fine.

 Regards

 James
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Re: [Samba] Data Migration NT - Linux

[sgtphou]

Quoting Michael Gasch [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 hi

 after successfully migrating users and groups from NT to Samba v3 i'm
 looking for a way to transfer some 1TB data from our old NT PDC to the
 newer one - Samba

 just copying the data doesn't work, because we have to ensure data
 consictency (and we can't switch the NT PDC off on a weekend to copy it,
 because it would take too long [some old MAC shares included and the PDC
 just has a 100MBit interface] )

 our thought was: rsyncing it slightly over some weeks and then, on one
 weekend, take the NT PDC from the net and copy the last modified data
 (apromimately 100GB) - so we could be in time

 but i red about some problems running rsync between different operating
 systems, so i want to ask, which way you prefered (and walked) ?!?!

 permissions and so on don't matter, we need just raw files

 thx in advance

 greez

I just wanted to confirm the strange issues when using rsync to copy files over
samba between different operating systems. I was the author of that post, and I
think I posted it three times here. Unfortunately I never got any useful
replies, and as of now, I have found I can't rely on it.

I am not sure if the problem is in samba, rsync, or a combination of both, or
maybe something on the windows machine.

If you have some time to try checking into this, please let me know, I'm very
anxious to figure out what's going on here. I still have my notes if you want
those.
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