Hi, Geoff Austin,

on Sonntag, 07. Dezember 2003 at 14:52 you wrote to amanda-users:

GA> Hi,

GA> I'm new to Amanda and I'm having trouble getting a samba dump to work,
GA> I hope somebody can help me, please...

GA> My amanda server is a "Redhat fedora core-1" intel, linux server.
GA> I'm able to backup linux client machines OK.
GA> I am not able to successfully backup a samba share.
>>>From reading the log file, It looks like the actual tar is running OK,
GA> but there appears to be a problem in the reporting back to the dump
GA> server.

Which versions of AMANDA and Samba?
You have to use one of the latest AMANDA-snapshots to be able to use
Samba 3. This combination is well known to behave the way you
reported.

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at