johnmdesmond
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Jan 2005
Posts: 83
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 Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:05 am Post subject: Trying to back up Windows share but choking on locked files |
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I'm setting up duplicity to back up my files, encrypted, to an FTP site. I figured, since this is going so well, why don't I just back up my wife's Windows XP Pro "C:\Documents and Settings\Wife" folder as well? What could possibly go wrong? Well, it's Windows, isn't it...
The backup process fails at the first locked file. I should have seen that coming.
In order to get filesharing working in the first place, I disabled Simple File Sharing on her machine (it's not joined to a domain) and I have a line in fstab like this:
| Code: | | //192.168.0.27/Wife /mnt/wife smbfs noauto,user,username=husband,password=xxxxxxxx,uid=husband,gid=users,rw 0 0 |
Username husband is an administrator on her machine.
Is there some magical combination of Windows XP Pro permissions and Linux mount options that will prevent stalling on locked files? Read-only access would be fine. |
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