Moritz Both schrieb:
> 
> As it turned out, all backups of the windows servers were
> incomplete. smbclient thought 70-80 files per directory must be enough.
> At backup time, it just went ahead to the next directory, and whenever a
> directory contained more than this many files, they were simply ignored
> without any warning or error message.
> 
> The result is massive data loss. (Professional hardware data recovery
> failed.)
> 
> We installed a samba update on the debian sarge server. Now, more files
> make it to the tape, but some other bug in smbclient makes it fail after
> it has run for a certain time. 

This sounds like an smbclient-bug to me ...

Please let me know the exact releases of Samba used, in general I would
be interested to know the exact setup (OS versions, etc.)

You may also send that to me via private mail, even in german, if
preferred ;-)

Maybe the Samba-Bugzilla would give you more infos on that ...

Greets, Stefan.