Re: [BULK] RE: [BackupPC-users] Unexpected end of tar archive

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

"Justin Best" writes:

> Thanks for your help, Craig! I appreciate it so very much.
>=20
> I've filed a bug report with Samba, as you suggested.
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D3592=20
>=20
> Out of curiosity, though, it seems that you still have an open bug that=

> references the same problem. In bug 563
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D563
> you mentioned "smbclient tar extract still only writes a maximum 2GB fi=
le;
> not sure why." Am I right in assuming that this is the same issue? =20

That's a bug in the other direction (restoring large files).
Your bug is padding large locked files when creating an
archive).

> In any event, I'm still unfamiliar with how I should go about fixing th=
is in
> my case. I assume that I need to download the source and modify it and
> recompile smbclient... but I haven't a clue on how to "make padsize an
> unsigned int", as you suggest. I'm afraid that I know some ASP and PHP,=
 and
> that's about it. Any direction about where to start with this would be
> appreciated.

You should download the latest source for samba, and edit
samba-3.X.X/source/client/clitar.c so that this line:

    static int padit(char *buf, int bufsize, int padsize)

instead reads:

    static int padit(char *buf, int bufsize, SMB_BIG_UINT padsize)

Then you should be able to run configure and make, then use
the resulting smbclient executable.

I haven't tested this fix, but it should be correct.=20

Craig