D Andrew Reynhout wrote:
Here's a different take, one that's been causing me problems all over, and I can't figure out if it's rsync, or samba, or some other force causing the problems. First, the setup:Several months ago, I posted my first pass at a patch to transfer Mac OS X HFS+ metadata (resource forks and Finder metadata) to non-HFS+ filesystems (Linux, Solaris, etc).
The bulk of the company works on Win32 machines, except our digital department, who are all using Macs. Therefor, we have a few large Win2K servers who act as file servers on the network for anyone to use. This works well; the folks on Win32 machines can see/use them and the folks in Digi can also see/use them. Those guys use both OS 9 as well as OS X machines.
Here's what I want to do: they purchased a new Win2K server and loaded it up with large drives, to be used as backups for the other servers around the building. Basically what they want is a (semi) mirror copy of what the other servers hold, in case of a server failure, so they can simply re-map their share to the backup server and continue working while I fix the failed one (the data would be no more than 48 hours old since backups would only run either every night or every other night.)
Sounds simple enough, right? So, here's what I thought of doing: take a free linux box I had sitting in a closet, and use it to act as a sort of backup manager. Let's assume we have Server-A with Drive1 and Drive2 on it. Now we have BackupServer with Drive1 and Drive2 on it. On the linux box, I do an smbmount to get Server-A:Drive1 mounted, and the same for BackupServer:Drive1. Then I run rsync on those drives. And this is where the problems start. I posted this message to the Samba-Tech list as well, so I'm just going to quote the archived version here:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-August/036630.html
I'd like to think it's samba not being able to read those files, but from what I read here today, it seems maybe rsync is also having problems. So I'm fishing for possible ideas here.
Now, I will also admit, this may not be the ideal setup. Perhaps I should just stick to xcopy on the backup server and let it do it's thing. I don't know. What I DO know is that we want to stay as far away as we can from having to buy some expensive, network backup software. We've had our share of bad luck with them (they don't always grab everything, which has come back and bit us hard in the past.)
If anyone has any brilliant ideas, I'm all ears.
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