Samba loses files from directories, backups defective

2005-02-25 Thread Kevin Dalley
There is a very serious and long-standing problem with samba, where it loses files from directories, perhaps 1-10 out of a 1000. This problem may cause amanda to miss files in a backup. This problem may be more likely to occur with directories which contain over 1000 files, though it has been rep

Re: Samba loses files from directories, backups defective

2005-03-01 Thread Kevin Dalley
I discovered a problem with the suggested patch. In some cases, the time for the estimate increases to hours, with the memory used by smbclient growing above 1GB. This is on an i686. Perhaps changed estimate to server will be better, but fixing samba is my preference. https://bugzilla.samba.org

Re: Samba loses files from directories, backups defective

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kevin, on Mittwoch, 02. März 2005 at 02:07 you wrote to amanda-users: KD> I discovered a problem with the suggested patch. In some cases, the KD> time for the estimate increases to hours, with the memory used by KD> smbclient growing above 1GB. This is on an i686. Perhaps changed KD> estim

Samba now works (was Re: Samba loses files from directories, backups defective)

2005-03-10 Thread Kevin Dalley
I just tried the latest subversions release of samba on the SAMBA_3_0 branch. Files have stopped disappearing, and the memory leak is gone. Last night's backup was one of the cleanest I have had in ages. Here's the latest information on this samba patch. https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?

Re: Samba now works (was Re: Samba loses files from directories, backups defective)

2005-03-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kevin, on Freitag, 11. März 2005 at 01:47 you wrote to amanda-users: KD> I just tried the latest subversions release of samba on the SAMBA_3_0 KD> branch. Files have stopped disappearing, and the memory leak is KD> gone. Last night's backup was one of the cleanest I have had in KD> ages. H