[Samba] NT Backups

[Urban Widmark]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, The Fresh Prince of Darkness wrote:

> The Linux boxes are being rsynced over ssh, so everything is happy 
> there.  The NT servers were initially going to be smbmounted and 
> rsynced, but this ended up hanging about 30% of the time on servers with 
> large amounts of data.

Unpatched smbfs versions aren't too happy with files over 2G. So if you 
have such files that could be why.

As smbfs maintainer I am interested in details on this if you still have
them or can be bothered to reproduce it. Kernel version used, error
messages (dmesg) and any other info you think may be relevant.


> Has anyone had to do something similar with more success than I've had? 
>   any pointers would be appreciated.

Someone else on this list was setting up NT backups to be sent to a samba 
server. You could to that and then rsync the NT backup files.

/Urban