Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Dale Renton
Newer versions of smbclient stop processing the rest of the directory when an error is encountered. Perhaps it is related to this. See https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10605 I did have the excludes working properly, but can't remember the exact syntax. In the end smbclient was just to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Christian Völker
Am 21.08.2014 um 17:27 schrieb Les Mikesell: > One thing that might not be obvious is that smbclient reads your > /etc/samba/smb.conf file where you may have settings intended for the > server side of samba. I can't think of any settings that would cause > this behavior, but it is something to be a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: >> > There's definitely something funny going on. > > Before I stopped using SMB, I can confirm that its behavior was more as > expected -- I would get errors on open files, the errors would show up in > the logs, and open files would not cause

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Michael Stowe
> Hi all, > >>> SMB can't back up open files (unless you're doing something exotic, I >>> suppose -- so you *should* be seeing errors whenever it comes across a >>> locked file, unless you've specifically excluded them. >> Indeed, that strange. As I usually don't change any log settings it is >> ev

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 08/21 03:15 , Christian Völker wrote: > hiberfil.sys is not reconned as "exclude" as it tries to backup anyways. So > what syntax is to be used correctly? Try this: '/hiberfil.sys', Seems to work for me, tho I'm using rsync instead of smbtar. If that doesn't work, try '\hiberfil.sys', instead

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Christian Völker
Hi all, >> SMB can't back up open files (unless you're doing something exotic, I >> suppose -- so you *should* be seeing errors whenever it comes across a >> locked file, unless you've specifically excluded them. > Indeed, that strange. As I usually don't change any log settings it is > even more

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Christian Völker
Hi Michael, > SMB can't back up open files (unless you're doing something exotic, I > suppose -- so you *should* be seeing errors whenever it comes across a > locked file, unless you've specifically excluded them. Indeed, that strange. As I usually don't change any log settings it is even more str

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Michael Stowe
> Hi all, > > I'm using BackupPC since years for a couple of Linux servers and it > works like a charm. > > I have included some Windows XP/7 machines, too. Appears to work like a > charm, too. > > Unfortunately I recently realized on a single machine the backed up > directory structure is not corr

[BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

2014-08-21 Thread Christian Völker
Hi all, I'm using BackupPC since years for a couple of Linux servers and it works like a charm. I have included some Windows XP/7 machines, too. Appears to work like a charm, too. Unfortunately I recently realized on a single machine the backed up directory structure is not correct. :-/ BackupP