SMBTAR Not Backing up Files

[Thomas L. Harris]

I am having trouble getting SMBTAR to do a complete backup on NT
Workstation and NT Server.  The backup starts off just fine.  However,
after a short time, errors begin showing up and files are not backed
up.  The files that are missed are not open files.  I have set the -t
option to disk and tape.  I get pretty much the same result.  Both NT
machines have over 2 GB of data to backup up.  I am running Samba 2.05a
on AIX 4.3.2 using an IBM S7A Enterprise Server.  If anyone has solved a
problem like this with SMBTAR, I would be interested in hearing from
you.  Thanks in advance.

Errors Writing Tar to Tape:

    593920 (21481.5 kb/s) \Tomh\Software\aix.lum\ifor_ls.msg.ko_KR
Error writing to tar file - No such device or address
Didn't get entire file. size=596992, nread=0
Error writing tar file - No such device or address
    596992 (14575.0 kb/s) \Tomh\Software\aix.lum\ifor_ls.msg.pt_BR
Error writing to tar file - No such device or address
Didn't get entire file. size=521216, nread=0
Error writing tar file - No such device or address
    521216 (16966.7 kb/s) \Tomh\Software\aix.lum\ifor_ls.msg.zh_CN
Error writing to tar file - No such device or address
Didn't get entire file. size=565248, nread=0
Error writing tar file - No such device or address
    565248 (18400.0 kb/s) \Tomh\Software\aix.lum\ifor_ls.msg.zh_TW
Error writing to tar file - No such device or address
Didn't get entire file. size=56490, nread=0
Error writing tar file - No such device or address
     56490 (  613.0 kb/s) \Tomh\Software\aix.lum\readme.ark
      2098 (  170.7 kb/s) \Tomh\Software\aix.lum\readme.txt
                directory \Tomh\Software\COLD\
                directory \Tomh\Software\COLD\DENTON\
                directory \Tomh\Software\COLD\DENTON\AAAA\
Error writing to tar file - No such device or address
Didn't get entire file. size=499212, nread=0
Error writing tar file - No such device or address
..
..
Errors Writing Tar to Disk:

   195732 ( 3185.7 kb/s) \Program Files\Smarter
Software\Datasets\msabyzip.txt
    294912 ( 2571.4 kb/s) \Program Files\Smarter
Software\Datasets\msac.dir
    148407 ( 2841.7 kb/s) \Program Files\Smarter
Software\Datasets\parse.dir
    270848 ( 3778.6 kb/s) \Program Files\Smarter
Software\Datasets\UNWISE.EXE
 388833280 ( 4292.9 kb/s) \Program Files\Smarter
Software\Datasets\us.gsd
Error writing to tar file - File too large
Didn't get entire file. size=94435328, nread=27518400
Error writing tar file - File too large
  94435328 (12430.5 kb/s) \Program Files\Smarter Software\Datasets\us.z9

                directory \Program Files\Smarter Software\Smart Find\
       324 (  158.2 kb/s) \Program Files\Smarter Software\Smart
Find\case.tbl
Error writing to tar file - File too large
Didn't get entire file. size=368640, nread=0
Error writing tar file - File too large
    368640 (10588.2 kb/s) \Program Files\Smarter Software\Smart
Find\GEOSTN32.DLL
      6089 (  110.1 kb/s) \Program Files\Smarter Software\Smart
Find\INSTALL.LOG
Error writing to tar file - File too large
Didn't get entire file. size=59904, nread=0
Error writing tar file - File too large
     59904 ( 1271.7 kb/s) \Program Files\Smarter Software\Smart
Find\KeyLbE32.dll

Tom Harris
Denton CAD
tomh at iglobal.net