Smbmount / Tar

[Cyber Source]

Cyber Source wrote:

> Justin Bennett wrote:
>
>> Following Pete's recommendation on backing up files from windows, I'm 
>> using tar off of a smbmount file share, I'm getting file changed as 
>> we read it errors during the tar, it's always the same files, and in 
>> windows they haven't changed. I did some googleing and found that 
>> this is an issue with windows reporting the timestamp and that the 
>> file should be ok. Can anyone confirm they've see this problem?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Justin
>>
> Are these system files your having the trouble with? I have seen tar 
> complain about time stamps but usually it's an ACL thing. Are the 
> times between your windows box and Linux box the same?
> I don't have the same situation (thankfully). I have a Linux server 
> acting as a PDC and I wanted to backup the samba shares. So I had an 
> older box with a scsi backplane that was too old for anything other 
> than a role as a backup server, which I put into place last night and 
> have the PDC NFS export the directories I want to backup. The backup 
> server mounts the NFS exports and tars them up nightly to another 
> drive on the backup server, here is a snippet of my one week tolerance 
> from cron,
> #Backup Act Databases on Monday
> 00 4 * * 1 tar -czpf /disk1/Monday/act.tar.gz /bmhserver/public/Act
> #Backup Act Databases on Tuesday
> 00 4 * * 1 tar -czpf /disk1/Tuesday/act.tar.gz /bmhserver/public/Act
> #Backup Act Databases on Wednesday
> 00 4 * * 1 tar -czpf /disk1/Wednesday/act.tar.gz /bmhserver/public/Act
> #Backup Act Databases on Thursday
> 00 4 * * 1 tar -czpf /disk1/Thursday/act.tar.gz /bmhserver/public/Act
> #Backup Act Databases on Friday
> 00 4 * * 1 tar -czpf /disk1/Friday/act.tar.gz /bmhserver/public/Act
> #Backup Act Databases on Saturday
> 00 4 * * 1 tar -czpf /disk1/Saturday/act.tar.gz /bmhserver/public/Act
>
> I just really don't like tapes and this works for me ;).
>
for those of you that noticed, i corrected the crons with the correct day.

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