Hi all, I'm experiencing a problem when NTBACKING'UP my W2000 Server files against a Linux 2.4.9 + ReiserFS 3.6 file system + Samba share. It works OK for the first 4 Gb's around file size. Then ntbackup stops serving data and the file on the samba side appears to be downsized to 0 and growing ssssslowly. Once you stop ntbackup by killing the process, the file reappears at its real size (more than 4Gbs), but, since ntbackup stopped, it is impossoble to recover. I have also created a local 22Gb. file in the W2000 Server, then moved it to the Linux box via Samba and it worked OK!, so there's something between ntbackup and samba shares. Any idea, any help? Thanks P.S. I also had the idea of using a FIFO file to pipe the info from ntbackup into a gzipped file, but unfortunately ntbackup destroys the file and recreates it as a normal file even if you tell it to Append instead of Replace data, a pity... (any suggestion accepted!) -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Hi again, this is what actually happens while ntbackup creates the file over the share: pokeball:/backup1# ls -l total 4173588 -rwxrw-r-- 1 admin admin 0 Oct 13 14:11 A7B4G5J1.BJ3 -rwxrw-r-- 1 admin admin 4278197248 Oct 13 14:31 kwisatz.bkf pokeball:/backup1# ls -lh total 4.0G -rwxrw-r-- 1 admin admin 0 Oct 13 14:11 A7B4G5J1.BJ3 -rwxrw-r-- 1 admin admin 4.0G Oct 13 14:31 kwisatz.bkf pokeball:/backup1# ls -l total 918624 -rwxrw-r-- 1 admin admin 0 Oct 13 14:11 A7B4G5J1.BJ3 -rwxrw-r-- 1 admin admin 7168 Oct 13 14:31 kwisatz.bkf .... in any point between 4.0 and 4.1 Gb, samba reports 0 bytes and counter starts over BUT!!!! keep reading. Once I stop ntbackup or restart samba look at this: pokeball:/backup1# ls -l total 12 -rwxrw-r-- 1 admin admin 0 Oct 13 14:11 A7B4G5J1.BJ3 -rwxrw-r-- 1 admin admin 4295040000 Oct 13 14:32 kwisatz.bkf ... The file is brought back to its REAL size!!!! so... ntbackup bug? samba bug? any help?? Thanks a lot. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed