- Backups on Linux from Windows
- Posted by Matt on February 24th, 2004
Greetings,
I'm trying to do tape backups on my windows systems from a linux system.
I am mounting them via SMBMOUNT and then running tar on the files to
dump them to tape.
It seems that very often tar will say 'File changed as we read it'.
I'm getting this message even on files that I *know* are not being
changed as they are being read. Just out of curiousity today I untarred
one of the files that had the message (a wav file) and it was corrupted.
What is causing this and how do I fix it?
- Posted by Davide Bianchi on February 24th, 2004
Matt <no@spam.com> wrote:
That's normal (unfortunately), it seems that Windows can't
leave his own files alone.
Windows.
You don't.
Davide
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- Posted by nobody@nowhere.com on February 24th, 2004
Matt <no@spam.com> wrote:
: Greetings,
: I'm trying to do tape backups on my windows systems from a linux system.
: I am mounting them via SMBMOUNT and then running tar on the files to
: dump them to tape.
: It seems that very often tar will say 'File changed as we read it'.
: I'm getting this message even on files that I *know* are not being
: changed as they are being read. Just out of curiousity today I untarred
: one of the files that had the message (a wav file) and it was corrupted.
Clearly there's a running process or service that is doing you in.
You need to track down what it is.
I suppose you could also play games like making the FS read-only
while you're doing the backup, which might be easier than tracking
down the errant process.
Plus- it could very easily be a bogus error message and indicative
of a completely different problem.
I'd start with permissions- set to read only- then if that still
fails you know it is a different issue.
regards
Stan
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- Posted by Stefan Viljoen on February 24th, 2004
Matt wrote:
Hmm - I had a somewhat similar situation a while ago. Have you tried first
moving the files over to the Linux system with SAMBA, and then tarring them
to tape? Takes longer, but I suspect it will work fine.
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Stefan Viljoen
Polar Design Solutions
Software Support Technician
- Posted by Rene Laederach on February 29th, 2004
Stefan Viljoen wrote:
Bacula has a windows client so you could use that one as backup software.
Check www.bacula.org for details.
-Rene
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