samba - Jul 1999 - smbtar/smbclient and backups of NT

I've looked at samba archives (mailing lists), I've looked at altavista,
and deja.com. No help.

I want to do a backup of NT machine using smbclient. I call it like:

# smbclient //MACHINE/Share Pass -U Administrator -E -c tarmode full -D usr
-d0 -Tc test.tar

It starts fine, but after some time thing like this happen:

...
Error reading file \usr\mail\Vanja\Attach\att11.eml. Got 0 bytes
Didn't get entire file. size=2210, nread=0
      2210 (   69.6 kb/s) \usr\mail\Vanja\Attach\att11.eml
      2732 (   70.2 kb/s) \usr\mail\Vanja\Attach\att12.eml
Error reading file \usr\mail\Vanja\Attach\att13.eml. Got 0 bytes
Didn't get entire file. size=2305, nread=0
      2305 (   57.7 kb/s) \usr\mail\Vanja\Attach\att13.eml
...

And it goes on and on. On 350Mb of data, I get around 250 errors. Not to
mention that 100 of those 250 are *critical* (for me) files :)

I tried to modify the blocksize (using -Tcb <value> <filename>) but
the
only difference is that errors start happening earler or later. And always
at same place, when using same blocksize.

Does anybody know what could be the problem?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Vanja Hrustic

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Vanja Hrustic wrote:
> 
> I've looked at samba archives (mailing lists), I've looked at
altavista,
> and deja.com. No help.
> 
> I want to do a backup of NT machine using smbclient. I call it like:
> 
> # smbclient //MACHINE/Share Pass -U Administrator -E -c tarmode full -D usr
> -d0 -Tc test.tar
> 
> It starts fine, but after some time thing like this happen:
> 
> ..
> Error reading file \usr\mail\Vanja\Attach\att11.eml. Got 0 bytes
> Didn't get entire file. size=2210, nread=0
>       2210 (   69.6 kb/s) \usr\mail\Vanja\Attach\att11.eml
>       2732 (   70.2 kb/s) \usr\mail\Vanja\Attach\att12.eml
> Error reading file \usr\mail\Vanja\Attach\att13.eml. Got 0 bytes
> Didn't get entire file. size=2305, nread=0
>       2305 (   57.7 kb/s) \usr\mail\Vanja\Attach\att13.eml
> ..
> 
> And it goes on and on. On 350Mb of data, I get around 250 errors. Not to
> mention that 100 of those 250 are *critical* (for me) files :)
> 
> I tried to modify the blocksize (using -Tcb <value> <filename>)
but the
> only difference is that errors start happening earler or later. And always
> at same place, when using same blocksize.
> 
> Does anybody know what could be the problem?
> 
Speaking from a position of almost complete ignorance:  you *have*
checked to see that you're not filling up your disk partition, right? 
Or your disk quota, assuming you have one?  :-)
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