samba - Nov 2003 - Antwort: Re: Backup from Linux onto Win2K-share

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:28:33PM +0100, Carsten.Loeffler@command.de
wrote:
> No, I'm not really "taring". Right now I'm using
following command to
mount
> a share on the windows box:
>
> smbmount //ntsrvsr3/cmdhp5 /mnt/backupsmb -o username=kwhadm,dmask=777
>
> I also tried "mount -f smbfs ...."; but this failed as well.
>
> Some more descriptions:
> I have a Windows-2000-domain with ten W2K servers. One of the servers is
my
> backup server which has a share for each of the other servers where they
> can put
> their database-backups. As well I have a Linux box running a database; it
> also
> has to put its database backup to a share (named above).
>
> A few words on my database: I'm running SAP DB 7.3. It has the option
to
> backup the database either on a tape or on into a file. If using
> "file-backup" this
> file can be anywhere on the linux, either in the local file system or in
> NFS or in
> SAMBA. SAP DB does not care on that as long as it can use a mount.
> In Windows this works out perfectly for me (same technique).
>
> Ive tried FTP, SAMBA and NFS: nothing can backup more than 2 or 4
Gigabyte.
> Ive tried Suse Enterprise 8, Suse 8.2, Mandrake 8.1: same problem
> everywhere.
> At home I tried to manage it with XP-Professional and Suse Linux 8.2;
there
> I've tested a new compiled kernel and samba 3.0.1: same problem.
>
> Sorry, but I'm getting "frustrated".
-You're using the Linux Kernel "smbfs" file system module, which
is a
-part of the Linux kernel and not really part of Samba per se (although
-the smbmount helper program is included in Samba).  Some versions of
-it have a 2G file size limit.  There are patches that you can apply to
-your Linux kernel (and possibly your Samba as well) to.
-
-Can you try using the smbclient command to copy the file to your
-server?
-
-The other alternative is to try installing the Linux CIFS filesystem
-module.  See
-http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html
-                                    -- JF


Jay,

Thank you for your information.

I've tried smbclient; that did not work as well: it stopped
at exactly 4 Gigabytes (4.294.2967.296 Bytes) and that that
it copied the file successfully - but it did not.
Is that what you expected? Is it a kernel limitation then?
I have are "fresh" kernel (2.4.19) and I'm using Samba 2.2.5

Anyway I will read that CIFS page....

Regards,
Carsten Loeffler





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Le mer 26/11/2003 ? 11:26, Carsten.Loeffler@command.de a ?crit
:
> I've tried smbclient; that did not work as well: it stopped
> at exactly 4 Gigabytes (4.294.2967.296 Bytes) and that that
> it copied the file successfully - but it did not.
is your disk on the w2k side formatted using fat32 or ntfs? IIRC, fat32
doesn't handle files larger than 4Gb

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