[Samba] get errors when doing a tar backup of a windows server with linux smbclient

[Rick Warner]

Anyone?
On Thursday 07 December 2006 17:09, Rick Warner wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We have a script that does a nightly backup of a windows server to a linux
> fileserver.  The linux system uses smbclient to make a tarball of the
> share. I get this error when running smbclient:
>
>
> Domain=[OURSERVER] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> tar: dumped 56781 files and directories
> Total bytes written: 9800680960
> write_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer
> write_socket: Error writing 39 bytes to socket 7: ERRNO = Connection reset
> by peer
> Error writing 39 bytes to client. -1 (Connection reset by peer)
>
>
> As far as I can tell, the tarball it creates is OK.  Doing a file list on
> the backup with tar lists all the files (at least as far as I can tell) and
> no errors.
>
> Here is the script we use to do the backup:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # Username and Password for Windows share.
> export USER=ourusername
> export PASSWD=ourpassword
>
> # Service name of Windows share and sub-directory for backup exclusion.
> SERVICE='//ourserver/apps'
> SUBDIR='System Volume Information'
>
> # Backup location, basename, and date string.
> BACK='/home/server-backups/ourserver';
> BASE='ourserver';
> DATE=`date +%Y-wk%U_%b-%d_%a`;
>
> # Misc. variables
> MSG1="Tarring up $SERVICE Directory: $SUBDIR to: $BACK";
>
> if [ -f $BACK/$BASE$DATE.tar.bz2 ]; then
>         echo "File exists, command halted: $BACK/$BASE$DATE.tar.bz2"
> else
>         smbclient $SERVICE -N -TqcX
> $BACK/$BASE$DATE.tar "$SUBDIR" "example/1.lck" "example/2.lck"
> "example/3.lck" "example/4.lck" "example/5.lck" "example/6.lck"
> "example/7.lck" "example/8.lck" bzip2 $BACK/$BASE$DATE.tar
> fi
>
>
> We are using samba 3.0.22-r3 from a gentoo install.  Tar is 1.15.1-r1.
> How can I eliminate this error message?
>
> --
> Richard Warner
> Lead Systems Integrator
> Microway, Inc
> (508)732-5517

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Richard Warner
Lead Systems Integrator
Microway, Inc
(508)732-5517