-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? - -- Sean Kennedy PGP public key: http://tpno.org/keys/0xFC1C377F.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/uQaeIjyA6vwcN38RAhfIAJ9kU6sDT5IBgn7SfnlHoUyOR562MwCdG6oS jvWkJ4jHzMlrEh1zCg02RGE=cvES -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----