Neimar writes:

> I'm trying to backup a windows 2003 share via smb but only the directory 
> structure is being copied, no files at all.
> 
> My BackupPC version is:  3.1.0
> My smb version is: 3.0.28a-1.fc7 (on Fedora 7)
> 
> My SmbClientFullCmd:
> $smbClientPath //$host/$shareName $I_option -U $userName -E -N -d 1 -c 
> tarmode\ full -Tc$X_option - $fileList
> 
> I can browse and copy the share directories and files using smbclient 
> directly from command line, so I'm almost sure that is not a permission 
> problem.
> 
> No errors are reported and the transfer log shows:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> Running: /usr/bin/smbclient //MyServer/docs -U administrator -E -N -d 1 -c 
> tarmode\ full -TcN /data/backup/BackupPC/pc/MyServer/timeStamp.level0 - 
> \\shareSubDir
> incr backup started back to 2008-07-02 08:07:32  (backup #0) for share docs
> Xfer PIDs are now 5144,5143
> Getting files newer than Wed Jul  2 08:07:32 2008
> Domain=[MYDOMAIN] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] 
> Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
> tarmode is now full, system, hidden, noreset, verbose
> tar: dumped 2 files and directories
> Total bytes written: 0
>   create d 755       0/0           0 shareSubDir
>   create d 755       0/0           0 shareSubDir/Presentation
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 
> filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
> ------------------------------------------------

This is an incremental backup (as you can see from the -TcN tar
options) and none of the files have changed.  So just the directories
get created.

When you view the backup you will see all the files since that
view is merged with the previous full.

Craig

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