[Samba] Using Backup from Windows -> Samba : >4GB file limit?

[Joel Hammer]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:09:42PM -0600, Dan A. Dickey wrote:

I am not sure why you can't see anything in your /windows-c/WINDOWS
directory.

I would not use any non alphabetic characters in your path names. Linux
can't handle the full array of characters in file names that windows can.
That might be a problem here. (This is a feature, not a bug.)

Often, this sort of problem is due to permissions. When you mounted your
windows share, are you sure you got past the security problems? I think
you'll have to log on as root user, (I guess they call it ADMIN in the
windows world, I just don't know).

I am not sure how things are handled "permissions wise" with any of the backup
commands when windows files are being transferred to samba. 


Joel

> Ok.  That was quite interesting.
> I tried the cp -au method.  No dice.
> Let me rephrase my question, perhaps I left out one important tidbit...
> I want to backup my Windows XP Professional laptop to my Linux machine,
> which is running samba and a host of other things (Mandrake Linux).
> Ideally, I'd like to just run the Backup utility that gets started from the
> Backup button on the Tools pane of the Local Disk properties window.
> Or perhaps some other freely or cheaply available backup software
> that can be installed on the laptop.  It would sure be nice if it preserved
> file owners and permissions and whatever else NTFS likes to have around
> in the case where I need to actually restore something.
> Failing that, I'm open to suggestions as to *exactly* how to mount the
> C: drive from the laptop onto the Linux machine and perform a backup
> that way (cp, tar, whatever are workable solutions at this point).
> 
> Joel,
> I thought for sure your advice would work - it was something I simply
> failed to think of but in hindsight seems quite obvious.
> I enabled sharing on my laptop (was previous turned off), and could
> see the C drive via smbclient.  I even managed to figure out the right
> smbmount command line to get it mounted onto /windows-c.
> (But - maybe I failed here?)
> However, now - I cannot see anything listed in /windows-c/WINDOWS.
> It just shows up as an empty directory.  It is most definitely not empty.
> So, something with permissions isn't quite matching up, if it is possible
> for this to work this way.  I did mount the share as a user who is in
> the administrator group, BTW.
> I'm running samba fairly simply, no PDC or anything like that.
> I meant the Linux samba server more of as more storage for the laptop,
> something for some overflow or to keep around files used rarely.
> (i.e. - downloaded tarballs).
> It works for this, and works well.
> 
> So, now I'll just try to drop the C: drive on my laptop into one of
> the samba shares...  see if that gets me a copy or not.  :)
> 
> Any further advice would be welcomed.
> 	-Dan
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan A. Dickey
> ddickey at charter.net