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

[Robert J. <lhv...@sn...>]

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