[Samba] Samba & Symantec Ghost

[Adam Manock]

Try starting ghost with the -slowfile switch

I've seem performance go from 2 MB / min to 100+ MB / min writing an image 
to a samba share. (seen with Ghost 5.1d / samba 2.2.4)

Adam


At 09:16 AM 5/20/2002 -0400, Brian Mays wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I saw this posting by Christopher Robert Woods.  I am having the identical
>problem with Samba on Suse Linux 7.2 (OS/390).  Is there any known
>workaround?
>
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>To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA <samba at samba.org>
>Subject: Symantec Ghost and Samba
>From: Christopher Robert Woods <woodsch at forum-financial.com>
>Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 22:29:43 +1000
>Reply-To: woodsch at forum-financial.com
>Sender: samba at samba.org
>
>Hello all.  Trying to save the lone linux box in the organization.  Any
>help would be appreciated.
>
>Our desktop support team makes extensive use of Symantec Ghost to make
>images of NT desktops for recovery purposes.  I managed to talk them into
>using our lone linux server as the Ghost repository.
>
>The way the process works is that you boot the about to be imaged machine
>via a DOS boot disk, then run Ghost off of the network, and choose a drive
>mapped to a share on the linux server as the destination for the ghost
>image.
>
>To any NT box, the average ghost time takes about 20 minutes.  But to the
>linux/samba machine doing the above takes an hour and a half!!
>
>I am at a loss as to what to do.  Copying a large file to the linux server
>goes no slower than copying to an NT box.  However Ghost just seems to
>choke when writing to the Samba box.
>
>Attached below is our smb.conf.  Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
>Please help me stop the EVIL desktop group from getting Linux
>excommunicated from our NT network.
>
>FWIW, the share that they are trying to connect to is either [Images] or
>[Images1].  Both of which are on different physical drives.
>
>THANKS!!
>
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>[global]
>
>    workgroup = FFG
>    server string = Linux Profile Server
>    printcap name = /etc/printcap
>    load printers = yes
>    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>    max log size = 50
>    security = share
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>    local master = no
>  name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
>    wins server = 10.0.128.50
>    dns proxy = no
>
>#============================ Share Definitions
>
>[Profiles]
>         comment = Temporary space for Profiles
>         path = /ts/profiles
>         read only = no
>         public = yes
>         browseable = yes
>
>[Images]
>         comment = Image Repository
>         path = /ts/images
>         read only = no
>         public = yes
>         browseable = yes
>
>[Images1]
>         comment = 2nd Image Repository
>         path = /ts/images1
>         read only = no
>         public = yes
>         browseable = yes
>
>[Logs]
>         comment = Syslog Logs
>         path = /var/log
>         read only = no
>         public = yes
>         browseable = yes
>
>
>
>Brian Mays - CCNP
>Director of Network Computing
>Boscov's Department Store, LLC
>3135 Marion Ave.
>Laureldale, PA 19605
>610-929-7312 (Phone)
>610-929-7336 (Fax)
>bmays at boscovs.com
>
>
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