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Topic: smb share in dsl gets saved

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outanet

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Joined: Nov. 2004

Posted: Aug. 18 2005,22:00

Just an observation,
dsl1.4 after running samba and conecting to a remote windows share containing music at /home/dsl/mnt/myserver/mypartiton/music

I was happy untill I had cause to move the machine, so off it went and tried to save my ~/files to a backup on hda2, however 1 day later I see its still trying to copy the smb mounted shares ...... all 100g of it.

Am I right in thinking it is impotant to unmount smb
before closing down?

should dsl unmount shares before backing up files?

>> edit

actually this machine hung, never completed saving the smb share, and also hangs whilst rebooting and trying to restore the share. as this is a frugal, I will now have to reinstall and lose my saved docs and config.

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i remember using windows, ...... it was warm and sunny outside as i recall.

Max

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Joined: July 2004

Posted: Aug. 19 2005,15:01

I've done the same thing twice now while having my notebook hooked up at work. Tried to back up the whole C drive of my desktop before I did a hard power off...

Here is my solution:
1. You can boot with "DSL norestore" and then go to the drive that has the bad backup file and delete it. Trust me, it's not worth salvaging.

2. Reboot again to a "fresh" unspoiled DSL, configure like you like it. (I had to add back in all the XFree86 stuff...)

3. Add "home/dsl/mnt/" to the .xfiletool.list file. This will cause the backkup program to skip any directories in the mnt subdirectory.

4. Use the DSLPanel to do a new backup.

5. Backup your backup. Save a copy of the backup in a subdirectory somewhere on the same partition!!! Then if working copy gets trashed somehow, you can just copy the backup over the working copy and you don't have to reconfigure everything again. You might periodically update the backup backup if you make lots of changes to your system often.

Good luck.

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Using DSL on: IBM T42, IBM 560x, Dell Dimension CPx