Re: [BackupPC-users] New problems abound

[Craig B. <cr...@at...>]

> 1. I have a machine named donna which has two directories being backed up
> on it's share cdrv. The directories are /My Documents and /Program
> Files/Qualcomm. When I visit backuppc's web interface for this machine,
> cdrv has 102 directories.. the two above, and a bunch that have names tha=
> t
> look like noise: k=B1-=BBo\., etc. There are no errors in the logs, and
> there's no 'noise' in there either. Just very standard lists of files and
> directories backed up.

I presume the same garbled files show up when you manually look in
/data/BackupPC/pc/donna/nnn/cdrv?

Is this is case on every backup on this machine?

Could there be any files bigger than 4GB?

Perhaps BackupPC_tarExtract is getting out of phase, and is mistaking
file contents for file names.  Does it give any errors or warnings?

> 2. Something I didn't know was actually possible: The My Documents folder
> appears to be configured in such a way that backuppc can read all the
> directory names, and can traverse those directories, but can't read any of
> the files themselves. Again, no errors in the logs, and if I hadn't
> browsed these directories myself, I wouldn't have known. Still those files
> aren't being backed up. Any ideas on what I need to do to get them backed
> up? (Preferably without having to talk to my users ;)

I'm not an expert on Windoze file permissions and sharing options.
Are you saying it can read all other c: directories, but not below
My Documents?  This can happen if My Documents is itself shared.
Trying removing the My Documents share if there is one.

> 3. Different host, this one's name is techsupport. Here's it's error log,
> and it seems to say everything I need to:
>
> Protocol negotiation failed?

Not sure.  Run smbclient manually.  Something is wrong with the
share setup.  You could look at the samba source and see why
this message is printed.

> 4. Another host, this one named Harley: I'm getting two different types o=
> f
> errors on it. The first is this;
> ERRDOS - ERRbadfile (File not found.) listing \images\CVS\CVS\STC\work\*
>                 directory \images\CVS\ElemFacutlyProfiles\
> 
> The other is this:
> 
> Expected SMBtrans2 response, got command 0x04
> code 0 listing \Development\XPCustomers\*
> Expected SMBtrans2 response, got command 0x2d
> code 0 listing \STC
> 
> And that occasionally manifests itself as=20
> 
> code 0 opening remote file
> \Development\Webrary\Web\Webrary.ppf (\Development\Webrary\Web\)

Ah, this one I have seen before.  code 0 seems to indiciate your disk
is corrupted, but the user doesn't know it yet.  Run check disk on
this machine.

Craig