Amanda-Users

Re: Strange problems backing up Windows users with Samba

2003-04-03 18:43:33
Subject: Re: Strange problems backing up Windows users with Samba
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: Tom Murphy <tdmlinux4 AT yahoo DOT com>, amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 17:28:11 -0500
On Thu April 3 2003 13:18, Tom Murphy wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>   I am running AMANDA v2.4.4 on Solaris and all was
>working fine until recently. Now I get bizarre error
>messages through my AMANDA logs like these:
>
>/-- saturn.res //spock/E$ lev 1 STRANGE
>sendbackup: start [saturn.research.ets.org://spock/E$
>level 1]
>sendbackup: info
>BACKUP=/local/research/samba/bin/smbclient
>sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/local/research/bin/gzip
>-dc
>+|/local/research/samba/bin/smbclient -f... -
>sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
>sendbackup: info end
>? Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000
>milliseconds opening remote file
>+\ebsco-1064\cueanalysisnew.zip (\ebsco-1064\)
>? Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000
>milliseconds opening remote file
>+\ebsco-1064\cues.lst (\ebsco-1064\)
>? Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000
>milliseconds opening remote file
>+\ebsco-1064\difficulties-td80.txt (\ebsco-1064\)
>? Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000
>milliseconds opening remote file
>+\ebsco-1064\difficulties-td80.xls (\ebsco-1064\)
>
>
>etc..
>
>Tons upon tons of "Call timed out: server did not
>respond after 20000 milliseconds" error messages.
>
>Is there a fix for this somewhere? I am wondering if
>possibly it's a samba problem, but I am not sure.
>
>The machine it's trying to back up is a windows
>machine and is working fine as far as I know.
>
>Any help would be greatly apprciated!
>

Just off the top of my head, if its timing out with a 20 second 
timeout, thats looking like an access permissions problem of some 
kind.  But thats just a guess, I'm not a winderz user, its against 
my religion.  :-)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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