Hi all,
This is an update to a previous topic. I was having trouble using SMB to
back up locked files that were larger than 2GB. The backup would fail with
the message "Unexpected end of tar archive", and there were all these weird
foreign characters in the backup log.
Craig kindly pointed out th
"Justin Best" writes:
> Thanks for your help, Craig! I appreciate it so very much.
>
> I've filed a bug report with Samba, as you suggested.
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3592
>
> Out of curiosity, though, it seems that you still have an open bug that
> references the same proble
ted.
Thanks!
Justin Best
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-Original Message-
From: Craig Barratt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:05 PM
To: Justin Best
Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BULK] RE: [BackupPC-users] Unexpected end of tar archiv
"Justin Best" writes:
> > When Outlook is running, the PST file is locked and the backup fails
>
> I've been going with the assumption that this error was due to the
> apostrophe in the PST file name, since I *thought* the error disappeared
> when I renamed "Madalyn's Personal Folders.pst" to "Ma
> dude, maybe you should start at making sure that ALL sessions to
that file is closed.
>
> ie. make sure the user's outlook is CLOSED, make sure that exchange isnt
trying to poll that file, wich it shouldnt but make sure of this.
>
> this is the start of the error:
>
> "Error reading
>> When that PST file is
>> available, things continue normally. When that PST is locked,
>> it causes the entire backup to fail.
> What do you mean by "When that PST file is available"? Do you
> mean that outlook isn't running, so the PST file is unlocked?
Sorry to be unclear. When Outlook is r
Justin writes:
> Looks like I spoke too soon. Even with the patch to
> BackupPC_tarExtract (changing the first "A12" to "a12"), the
> error continues to occur, resulting in "Unexpected end of tar
> archive". The web interface shows the backup as "partial" and
> has all kinds of foreign characters
> > an error which states "Unexpected end of tar archive". I even swapped
> > BackupPC servers, and the same error is taking place when backing up the
> > same client PC, but none others.
> Please try the following patch to BackupPC_tarExtract.
> Craig
Hi Craig
Looks like I spoke too soon. Even
-Original Message-
From: Craig Barratt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:22 PM
To: Justin Best
Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexpected end of tar archive
"Justin Best" writes:
> I'm running BackupPC (2.1.1-
"Justin Best" writes:
> Sorry, I'm a Windows guy by default... how does one apply a patch?
This one is so simple that you could just do it by hand:
- edit the file bin/BackupPC_tarExtract
- look for a line that looks like this:
= 'Z100 A8 A8 A8 A12 A12 A8 A1 Z100 A6 A2 Z32 Z32 A8 A8
> Sorry, I'm a Windows guy by default... how does one apply a patch?
There is a utility called "patch", the sibling of "diff" (in Windows, you
can get it as part of CygWin). For a quick and dirty hack, you could just
lowercase the 4th 'A' in line 102 of BackupPC_tarExtract. I _think_ that's
all th
bject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexpected end of tar archive
"Justin Best" writes:
> I'm running BackupPC (2.1.1-2sarge1) on Debian Sarge. For details on how
my
> server is set up precisely, see attached document, BackupPC on Debian
> Sarge.txt
Nice docs.
> I'm succ
"Justin Best" writes:
> I'm running BackupPC (2.1.1-2sarge1) on Debian Sarge. For details on how my
> server is set up precisely, see attached document, BackupPC on Debian
> Sarge.txt
Nice docs.
> I'm successfully backing up 13 of the Windows XP hosts in my network to the
> BackupPC server via S
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