[rdiff-backup-users] Not always getting all the files over a cifs share

[Derek Flint]

Hello,

We're running rdiff-backup 1.1.16 on Ubuntu server 7.10 with a source
directory that is on mounted windows share and a destination directory
that is a local ext3 partition.  We're using cifs to mount the windows
share.

All too often it seems that only a subset of the files on the share are
found and the backup will only backup those files.  The files it doesn't
find from previous backups it removes from the mirror.  Are there any
ideas as to why the backup would only find some of the files on the
share?  The share itself hasn't changed in these tests.

There doesn't seem to be any error messages indicating something out of
the ordinary went wrong when the job only gets the subset.  The
statistics we get from such a job looks like the following.

StartTime 1215792035.00 (Fri Jul 11 11:00:35 2008)
EndTime 1215807361.31 (Fri Jul 11 15:16:01 2008)
ElapsedTime 15326.31 (4 hours 15 minutes 26.31 seconds)
SourceFiles 45724
SourceFileSize 6451305829 (6.01 GB)
MirrorFiles 436150
MirrorFileSize 52803307365 (49.2 GB)
NewFiles 55
NewFileSize 20856410 (19.9 MB)
DeletedFiles 390481
DeletedFileSize 46372872328 (43.2 GB)
ChangedFiles 60
ChangedSourceSize 3333314 (3.18 MB)
ChangedMirrorSize 3318932 (3.17 MB)
IncrementFiles 390626
IncrementFileSize 20490398852 (19.1 GB)
TotalDestinationSizeChange -25861602684 (-24.1 GB)
Errors 30

Thank you,

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Derek Flint