[Samba] Win2k System State Backup -> Samba box problem

[Sean Kennedy]

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Specs:
Samba 2.2.3a
Linux stark 2.4.20-20.9.XFS1.3.1 #1 Sat Oct 11 15:23:43 CDT 2003 i686 
athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Win2k Server, latest service packs installed.

I do nightly system state backups on my domain controller, and I would 
like to have those files backed up to my linux box using a cron job.  
However, when viewed from the linux box, the file is 16E in size ( 
actual size on server: ~2gb ).  I tried copying anyways, becuase I can 
be silly like that, and it really did just keep on copying ( I cut it 
off at 10gb ).

I don't quite understand this behavior.  I initially thought windows was 
leaving the file open in some regard, so I made a copy and renamed it ( 
usually works for dlls, at any rate ), then tried the copy:  No dice, 
same problem.   So I then thought that maybe windows was keeping it open 
anyway, regardless of the name change.  So I copied it to a different 
system, then tried it from the linux box.  Same problem.

As near as I can figure, there is something funky with the actual 
structure of the system state backup file, but that doesn't make any 
sense as windows can copy to the linux box just fine.

Anybody have any ideas?

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Sean Kennedy
PGP public key: http://tpno.org/keys/0xFC1C377F.asc

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