Re: [Samba] syncing file dates between windows nt4 and samba 3.0
Hi Daniel et al,... On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:13:17 -0600 "Daniel Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After playing around with dos filetime and fake directory > > > create filetimes without any success: Can anyone enlighten me > > > in this > topic? > > What systems are in use? I ask because I had a similar > always-updating problem when mirroring a website onto a FAT32 > partition. FAT's timestamps are only kept to 2-second precision > (IIRC), but the website was on EXT2. The FAT system appeared to > round the timestamps *down*, so every time wget compared them it > thought my copy was old. I found that putting a 'touch *' at the > end of that script took care of the problem. Hmmm, I remember problems like these with FAT, too. Anyhow, in this situation, I'm moving files from NTFS(NT4) to XFS(Linux), I'm not sure whether there is a similar timestamp problem about NTFS (guess there's not). By now, finally I've ended up with two options to get around this timestamp problem: (a) running "xcopy /m" as recommended here (thanks Dan!) to copy files depending on whether or not the archive bit is set or (b) using rsync to get the files updated, with rsync running on the NT or the Linux machine to get the job done. Speaking about rsync and even while probably being a little off-topic with this on a SAMBA list: Is there a way to speed up the "building file list" process while starting rsync? The problem about the file system I am about to copy is: There are literally millions of files (1000 directories, 1000 subdirectories each, several files in each of the subdirectories), so building file lists in rsync takes astoundingly long. Anyhow, thanks for all your inspirations; have a nice sunday anyone! Cheers, Kris -- Kristian Rink -- Programmierung/Systembetreuung planConnect GmbH * Strehlener Str. 12 - 14 * 01069 Dresden 0351 4657702 * 0176 24472771 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] syncing file dates between windows nt4 and samba 3.0
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On 10 Jan 2004 at 19:15, Holger Krull wrote:
> Kristian Rink schrieb:
> > workstations which at night run xcopy /d to copy files from the
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> > files or directories I am copying there - if they already exist
on the
> > samba machine, they're obviously updated, but their timestamp
doesn't
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> > After playing around with dos filetime and fake directory create
> > filetimes without any success: Can anyone enlighten me in this
topic?
What systems are in use? I ask because I had a similar
always-updating problem when mirroring a website onto a FAT32
partition. FAT's timestamps are only kept to 2-second precision
(IIRC), but the website was on EXT2. The FAT system appeared to
round the timestamps *down*, so every time wget compared them it
thought my copy was old. I found that putting a 'touch *' at the end
of that script took care of the problem.
If that really is the cause of your problem, you could put an extra
command in those BAT files ("copy C:\something .\update.now") to
signal a cron job that it needs to touch everything. It would be
nice to have a "--plus-one-minute" option in touch...
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Re: [Samba] syncing file dates between windows nt4 and samba 3.0
If you are just trying to backup the files from NT to SAMBA, I'd use xcopy /m instead. /m copies files with the archive attribute set, and then turns off the archive attribute. That way you don't have to worry about the dates. Dan >Kristian Rink schrieb: > >> workstations which at night run xcopy /d to copy files from the > >> files or directories I am copying there - if they already exist on the >> samba machine, they're obviously updated, but their timestamp doesn't > >> After playing around with dos filetime and fake directory create >> filetimes without any success: Can anyone enlighten me in this topic? > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] syncing file dates between windows nt4 and samba 3.0
Kristian Rink schrieb: workstations which at night run xcopy /d to copy files from the files or directories I am copying there - if they already exist on the samba machine, they're obviously updated, but their timestamp doesn't After playing around with dos filetime and fake directory create filetimes without any success: Can anyone enlighten me in this topic? Hmm, no real solution but the update stops if you make a touch on the samba server on all files. And a system with disabled ntfslastAccess doesn't update every time with xcopy /d. Looks as if this behaviour comes from differences in creation, access and changed times. (touch sets all of them to current time) And robocopy only picks the real changes, maybe you can use that. Holger -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] syncing file dates between windows nt4 and samba 3.0
Hi all,... ... currently I am trying to get hold of a strange error which is successfully keeping me from sleeping the last week. Basically, I am running a DebianGNU/Linux based machine with samba 3.0.0 as a backup server for an amount of Windows NT4 workstations. There is an old backup "framework" around here, basically a collection of .bat files on the workstations which at night run xcopy /d to copy files from the workstation to the backup server (which used to be an NT4 server before, as well). This procedure by now was intented to only copy modified files from workstation to backup, which worked pretty well... This is not the case with Samba, however. Basically, the Samba server is part of the local NT domain, access permissions are fine so far, yet xcopy each and every time is copying _all_ files to the backup server instead of just those which didn't change. And, by now, no matter which files or directories I am copying there - if they already exist on the samba machine, they're obviously updated, but their timestamp doesn't change while doing this. After playing around with dos filetime and fake directory create filetimes without any success: Can anyone enlighten me in this topic? TIA, have a fine weekend everyone! Kris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
