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Hi,

I'm new to rdiff-backup and very enthousiastic about it. I use it to make
nightly backups of the Windows 2000 fileserver of my company. I've installed
a Slackware 10.0 computer with a few 200 GB harddisks, and it will access the
Windows 2000 server with Samba.

Unfortunately, some files returns errors:

UpdateError gedeelde data/ICT/klanten/_ niet actief/DVA/Scenario's voor de IT
omgeving bij DVA.doc [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I've read the man pages, and the --windows option is meant to backtup TO a
Windows filesystem, not FROM a Windows filesystem to a Linux filesystem like
I do.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance,

Evert

I beg your pardon for my previous post, I just found out it's a Samba issue.


Additional information: it gives the same error with some Unicode characters
in the filenames, like the TM symbol.

I'm using samba version 3.0.7, which should support Unicode and defaults to
UTF8, and I don't have weird settings in smb.conf

In Windows, it's name is (hopefully this survives in the mail): Blackboard
Learning System(tm) (Release 6).url

The Windows share is mounted at /mnt/forest/d

root < at > backup:/mnt/forest/d/home/arjen/Favorieten# ls
...
Blackboard\ Learning\ SystemT\ (Release\ 6).url*
...


The error reads:

UpdateError arjen/Favorieten/Blackboard Learning SystemT (Release 6).url
[Errno 2] No such file or directory


Not sure whether this is a Samba or rsync-backup issue, but I canNOT copy the
file in bash:

root < at > backup:/mnt/forest/d/home/arjen/Favorieten# cp Blackboard\ Learning\
SystemT\ \(Release\ 6\).url /
cp: cannot stat `Blackboard Learning SystemT (Release 6).url': No such file
or directory

So It looks like it's a Samba issue. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Regards, Evert

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:26, Evert Mouw wrote:

Quote:

Hi,

I'm new to rdiff-backup and very enthousiastic about it. I use it to make
nightly backups of the Windows 2000 fileserver of my company. I've installed
a Slackware 10.0 computer with a few 200 GB harddisks, and it will access the
Windows 2000 server with Samba.

Unfortunately, some files returns errors:

UpdateError gedeelde data/ICT/klanten/_ niet actief/DVA/Scenario's voor de IT
omgeving bij DVA.doc [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I've read the man pages, and the --windows option is meant to backtup TO a
Windows filesystem, not FROM a Windows filesystem to a Linux filesystem like
I do.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance,

I don't, really.

But from looking at that filename, I'm guessing that there are ?dutch?
special characters in the filename, which perhaps rdiff-backup is
choking on- could you try to rename the file and see if that is indeed
the problem.

Quote:

Evert


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I have not gotten to the bottom of a related problem, but I have an
error of a file name which contains the degree symbol. As I have more
time I will try to report the exact error.
rdiff-backup does successfully mirror the file, but there are error
messages which I seem to recall also report "No such file or directory".

/Joe Baker/
Network Administrator
NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.


Hunter Matthews wrote:

Quote:

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:26, Evert Mouw wrote:

Quote:

Hi,

I'm new to rdiff-backup and very enthousiastic about it. I use it to make
nightly backups of the Windows 2000 fileserver of my company. I've installed
a Slackware 10.0 computer with a few 200 GB harddisks, and it will access the
Windows 2000 server with Samba.

Unfortunately, some files returns errors:

UpdateError gedeelde data/ICT/klanten/_ niet actief/DVA/Scenario's voor de IT
omgeving bij DVA.doc [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I've read the man pages, and the --windows option is meant to backtup TO a
Windows filesystem, not FROM a Windows filesystem to a Linux filesystem like
I do.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance,

I don't, really.

But from looking at that filename, I'm guessing that there are ?dutch?
special characters in the filename, which perhaps rdiff-backup is
choking on- could you try to rename the file and see if that is indeed
the problem.

Quote:

Evert


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Evert Mouw wrote:

Quote:

So It looks like it's a Samba issue. Sorry for the inconvenience!

its not a samba issue, its an smbfs issue.
try cifs instead, you might need a new kernel, but its worth it.

dave