[Samba] Robocopy from Windows to Samba (3.6.3) with backup flag

Hello, I need to copy a Windows NAS to a Samba one preserving all stuffs (dates, owner, security, etc...) in an enterprise environment. I'm used to do that with between two Windows using robocopy and the /b (backup) flag, so I can backup files ...

Message posted on the March 13th, 2012 - 5:40 AM ET

[Samba] GPFS, samba, robocopy and timestamps

Hi list, I'm trying to use robocopy to move some files over to a samba share backed by GPFS. I keep getting "ERROR 50 (0x00000032) Time-stamping destination file ... The network request is not supported." What is strange is that the ...

Message posted on the June 7th, 2010 - 12:30 PM ET

[Samba] Difference between real and reported disk usage

(I'm not subscribed to the list: please keep me in CC) I'm copying files between two samba server using robocopy from a third Windows PC and i'm experiencing disk usage that is much higher on the destination PC. The origin samba server is Debian ...

Message posted on the December 13th, 2012 - 3:30 PM ET

[Samba] samba 3.5.3: loads of errors copying some simple ACLs with robocopy

Maybe I'm doing somthing really stupid, but while copying some windows share onto a samba server, on some random subdirectory robocopy says ERROR 87 (0x00000057) Copying NTFS Security to Destination Directory... The samba logfile has lots of these ...

Message posted on the May 28th, 2010 - 10:50 AM ET

[Samba] samba 3.5.3 time-stamping issue

I'm copying a windows share onto a samba share, with robocopy to preserve filetimes and ACL's, but I get a lot of "ERROR 50 (0x00000032) Time-stamping destination file ..." It seems samba does not like to change the timestamp to the ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2010 - 8:30 AM ET

[Samba] help migrating from file server to NAS w/ Active Directory

hello, I'm having a problem I hope will be easy for someone to explain to me how to fix. I need to migrate from an old server to a new Cisco Smart Storage NAS, which runs some flavor of linux and is Active Directory aware. Using something like ...

Message posted on the February 16th, 2011 - 3:10 PM ET

[Samba] Destination share larger than windows source

Hi, I'm running Samba 3.6.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 (beta). Like many before me, I'm trying to migrate data from a Windows file server. I copied over a share as a test and was a bit surprised when the amount of space allocated in the file system was over ...

Message posted on the April 17th, 2012 - 7:00 PM ET

[Samba] migrating samba shares to a netapp filer?

Hello, I'll soon have to migrate our samba shares to a netapp filer (not my decision). Currently the shares are on an xfs filesystem and served by samba 3.5.2, which is also the domain controller (a role that it will maintain, only the shares are ...

Message posted on the January 31st, 2013 - 6:10 AM ET

[Samba] rsync'ing samba shares

I know this has come up a bit in the past, but consider this situation: Two Samba4 DC's - and I want to "mirror" the data shares to the "backup" DC in case we lose the primary DC and it's file shares. [A cheap, dirty, poor-mans ...

Message posted on the February 13th, 2013 - 6:40 PM ET

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