Hi,

Les Mikesell wrote on 2008-12-22 11:53:05 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] First 
user problems]:
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > On 12/20 04:29 , cantthinkofanickname wrote:
> >> But if I do that do I now have to go round to every Windows PC I need to
> >> backup and install something. I thought the idea of SMB was to avoid that
> >> stage. Maybe I'm wrong here?

no, that is basically correct.

> >> Any particular reason that I should abandon SMB?
> > 
> > Because rsync only transfers the changed files, not all of them. So backups
> > using rsyncd on windows are much faster in most cases.
> 
> Actually, rsync only transfers the changes within changed files - but 
> that may not be important to you if you have plenty of bandwidth.  The 
> server side still reconstructs a complete file copy and the server disk 
> may be your bottleneck.  The other difference is that incremental runs 
> using smb or tar are based strictly on the file timestamps and may miss 
> files that are new in their current location but were created/copied 
> with a method that preserves old timestamps - like unzip.  Rsync does a 
> comparison against the last full run and will pick up any differences.

While all of that is correct and important (and Tim has given more good
reasons in the fork of the thread), it does not answer the original question.
Maybe because the question is impossible to answer with the information you
gave.

Assuming you want to stick to SMB and work out the problem, you will need to
provide more exact information (your configs or at least the relevant
sections; quotes from log files - XFerLOG in particular; information on the
versions of your Samba packages - the -N issue appeared in a particular
version if I'm not mistaken; exact descriptions of what you tried). Setting
up rsyncd is the better method, though, if it is feasible, and it would avoid
solving the SMB issue. Your decision.

Regards,
Holger

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