dalen wrote:
M.Hockings wrote:
I'm trying to do some quick backups from a Win2K laptop to a Fedora Core 1 desktop but it ain't working. The backups are just a bunch of xcopy's. Most of them run fine but two fail and I don't understand why. It appears that xcopy is attempting to create directories in both cases. When I run the backup targeting a Win98 desktop there is no problem. Any ideas as to what the problem might be?
d:\>xcopy /S /Z /V /Q /Y /I /H /R /D /EXCLUDE:d:\bat\bu2x.exclude d:\ApplicationData\* \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\
Access denied Unable to create directory - \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\nof7\Templates\MXTemplates
0 File(s) copied
d:\>xcopy /S /Z /V /Q /Y /I /H /R /D "D:\Program Files\NetObjects Fusion 7\*" \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\programfiles\nof7
Access denied Unable to create directory - \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\programfiles\nof7\Components\ApollonComponents
Mike,
The access denied error makes me think of permission issues. Try (from the laptop)
mkdir \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\nof7\Templates\MXTemplates
If this fails, you need to adjust smb.conf or directory permissions on fc1.
Is MXTemplates the actual directory name or just the first part as in is "MXTemplates Folder yadda yadda"? It could be a problem with spaces.
If it is not either of these, you might try smbtar. See man smbtar fro details.
Thanks,
Dale
Hi Dale,
MXTemplates is the name of the file. I can create the directory from the command line in Windows with no problem but the xcopy from Win2K still fails with the same error. I'll re-check permissions though other xcopy calls have created hundreds of other directories and probably thousands of files but it gets stuck on these.
I'm trying to initiate the copy from Windows so Linux commands probably would not help. Hmmm, I do have cygwin installed here....
Kind regards,
Mike
