smbtar skips files, why?

Ben Stuyts ben at stuyts.nl
Wed Oct 7 17:34:46 GMT 1998


Hello,

I'm using Samba version 1.9.18p10.

I am trying to backup a Win95 disk with smbtar, but it skips lots of files  
without any apparant reason. For example, I have a directory C:\Acrobat3,  
with various subdirectories. With smbclient I can see and browse them just  
fine:

smb: \> cd Acrobat3
smb: \Acrobat3\> dir
  .                                   D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:42:24 1998
  ..                                  D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:42:24 1998
  Distillr                            D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:42:24 1998
  Exchange                            D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:42:46 1998
  Reader                              D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:45:28 1998

                65526 blocks of size 32768. 65526 blocks available
smb: \Acrobat3\> cd Distillr
smb: \Acrobat3\Distillr\> dir
  .                                   D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:42:24 1998
  ..                                  D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:42:24 1998
  ADISTRES.DLL                        A    248832  Tue Jun 17 14:14:46 1997
  ACRODIST.EXE                        A   2004480  Tue Jun 17 14:14:06 1997
  DATA                                D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:42:28 1998
  FONTS                               D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:42:42 1998
  STARTUP                             D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:42:46 1998
  XTRAS                               D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:42:46 1998
  tmp                                 D         0  Wed Aug 19 12:43:06 1998
  messages.log                        A       881  Sun Sep 20 01:01:38 1998

However, when I use smbtar to backup the Acrobat3 directory, only the Reader  
subdir is read, and the others are skipped:

[nemesis.stuyts.nl:dump/pc]334: smbtar -v -s branno -x c -p '***' -t a.tar Acrobat3
server    is branno
share     is c\\
tar args  is
tape      is a.tar
blocksize is
Added interface ip=x.x.x.x bcast=x.x.x.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Server time is Wed Oct  7 19:29:34 1998
Timezone is UTC+2.0
security=share
     20480 (  363.6 kb/s) \Acrobat3\Reader\DeIsL1.isu
     56704 (  608.5 kb/s) \Acrobat3\Reader\Readme.wri
....
    109568 (  708.6 kb/s) \Acrobat3\Reader\PLUG_INS\weblnk32.api
     90624 (  491.7 kb/s) \Acrobat3\Reader\Browser\nppdf32.dll
tar: dumped 70 tar files
Total bytes written: 5466624

So it is skipping both the Distillr and the Exchange directories. This also  
happens with other directories. All in all, there are 10971 on the C: drive,  
but only 8305 are backed-up using smbtar.

Is this a bug in smbtar, or am I overlooking something?

Ben


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