[Samba] Copied file becomes infinate

[Robert Adkins]

Colin,

	I know that on Windows, when you copy and Immensely large single file,   
there are times when it will show something like 100 years in minutes to   
complete the copy.

	Your issue could be related to that issue with Windows. You say that you   
copy files over from several other systems without a problem. Are those   
files on the other systems single small files or are they also in giant   
back-up format?

	One thing to test this would be to create a similarly large .zip or .bcf   
file on one of the other machines that your Samba system logs into. Then   
run your copy routine. If it appears to also create an infinitely large   
file, you will have more information to work with.

	At this time, that is the only thing that I can suggest. If it does   
appear to be simply related to the size of the .bcf file, you might want   
to setup the Windows back-up to chop that 7.1 gigs into much smaller   
chunks.

	I hope that I have been a little helpful. Good luck.

Regards,
Robert Adkins II
IT Manager/Buyer
Impel Industries, Inc.
Ph. 586-254-5800
Fx. 586-254-5804


 -----Original Message-----
From: Colin Davis [mailto:ColinD at traininghott.com]
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:06 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org; Robert Adkins
Subject: [Samba] Copied file becomes infinately large

   

I'm trying to back-up a set of windows machines onto a single Linux
machine, so that I can easily make a tape from there.

The Linux Machine (RedHat 7.3, running samba 2.2.6), is set to use
mount.smbfs to log in to each machine's Administrative share, and copy
several files from the hard drive.

One machine is giving me a great deal of difficulty, however.
Our last remaining window's fileserver (the rest have been converted),
makes a backup of it'self every night, and stores it on the F: drive.
This is easily completed in an hour or so.

On the Linux machine, it is set to try to log in to the fileserver, and
copy the file, every morning at 11:30am. The file (FullBackup.bcf) is
7.1 gig on the windows machine, but, left to it's own devices, Samba
never stops copying it.. The file grows until it fills the entire
filesystem!

   mkdir /mnt/bkp/BackupServer >> /etc/sambalog 2>&1
   mkdir /mnt/bkp/BackupServer/BackupDir >> \etc\sambalog 2>&1
   cp -R -u /mnt/smb/folder /mnt/bkp/BackupServer/BackupDir

Does anyone have any suggestions to why this might be happening?
I'm really at a loss.. It happens no matter what filesystem I give the
destination disk, so I think it must be an issue during the copy..

Colin
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