[BackupPC-users] smbclient tar does not store 0-byte files

While troubleshooting an issue, I found that, when using smbclient in
BackupPC, 0-byte files are not backed up.

This seems to be a problem with smbclient, not BackupPC.  One can see
the problem by executing smbclient from the command line in a similar way that 
BackupPC uses, but with debugging at level 4 or greater:

        smbclient //host/share -Aauth -d 4 -U user -E -c tarmode full -TcrX - 
\\exclude > foo.tar

If there are 0-byte files, you'll see:
        getting file \dir\zero.txt of size 0 bytes as a tar file 
zero.txtskipping \dir\zero.txt - initial read failed (file was locked ?)

I'm mainly posting this to get it in the archives, because I didn't see any 
similar posts.  Also, to see if anyone has any bright ideas.

There's a bug report on smbclient here:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4393

I love how the bug is still NEW > 2 years later...

-- 
Rob


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