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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