tar errors with windows backups?

2004-01-15 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I get an error message every night when backing up a windows share. The error message is pasted below. The backup seems to go well because the total bytes written seems correct to me. It seems to be complaining about tar. Is that correct? I get the same error for every windows share. Can

RE: Windows backups

2003-01-23 Thread Bill Hults
: amandad busy. Thanks for the help -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:12 AM To: Bill Hults Subject: Re: Windows backups Bill try taking the $ out of the sharename. It's probably trying to interpret the $ character

Re: Windows backups

2003-01-23 Thread Martin Hepworth
for the help -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:12 AM To: Bill Hults Subject: Re: Windows backups Bill try taking the $ out of the sharename. It's probably trying to interpret the $ character oddly. -- Martin Hepworth

RE: Windows backups

2003-01-23 Thread Bill Hults
amcleanup said there was nothing to do. The disklist is as the documentation suggests. No exclude list. -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:47 AM To: Bill Hults Cc: Amanda List Subject: Re: Windows backups Bill have

Re: Windows backups

2003-01-23 Thread Martin Hepworth
23, 2003 11:47 AM To: Bill Hults Cc: Amanda List Subject: Re: Windows backups Bill have you tried amcleanup? Sounds like the first run didn't exit clean. also make sure that the disktype doesn't mention an exclude list for the gtar varient. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator

Windows backups

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Hults
Hi I'm running Amanda 2.4.3 under RH8 backing up a few Linux boxes. This runs well. I now would like to add some of my W2K machines to the backup. As per the instructions - I recompiled Amanda with --with-smbclient --user-amanda --group-disk I created a amanda user with appropriate rights on the

Windows backups

2002-11-08 Thread Du-Wayne Rood
Hi All Quick one, can amanda backup open files on windows using samba, and if not how can i backup open files on amanda ?? Thanks

RE: Windows backups

2002-11-08 Thread Kevin Passey
know and I will publish them in the list. Regards Kevin -Original Message- From: Du-Wayne Rood [mailto:du-wayner;discoveryhealth.co.za] Sent: 08 November 2002 13:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows backups Hi All Quick one, can amanda backup open files on windows using samba

Re: Windows backups

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
Du-Wayne Rood wrote: Quick one, can amanda backup open files on windows using samba, and if No. not how can i backup open files on amanda ?? I do it the other way around. I create shares on a unix/linux server and run samba on the server. Everybody uses these shares to store their data.

Re: Windows backups

2002-11-08 Thread Marc Mengel
Paul Bijnens wrote: Does there exist a native Windows program that can backup open files? The standard backup program on e.g. win2000 can't (but most pc users are not aware of that problem :-). There are Windows calls to break open file locks; BackupExec, Legato, and other commercial packages

Re: Windows backups

2002-11-08 Thread Leonid Mamtchenkov
Dear Paul Bijnens, Once you wrote about Re: Windows backups: Does there exist a native Windows program that can backup open files? The standard backup program on e.g. win2000 can't (but most pc users are not aware of that problem :-). Google for open file manager. OFM is used by several