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Unreliable samba transfers - common issue? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm running Jellyfin on a Debian-server in my home, and I have the associated media folders set up as samba shares so that I can transfer any new media from my laptop to the server through Dolphin (KDE file manager).

This has for the most part worked very well (except slow speeds), but I've had an issue recently where the files are not copied over properly. This resulted in glitches in for example music files that would stop playback. I checked the checksums of some of these files, and they were different from source. Seems like the glitchy files are missing some data, but at no point were I notified about this. It works fine after I removed the files and transferred again, and now the checksums match.

Is this a common issue with samba, or could it be a sign that my HDD is acting up?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apart from copying the files again after comparing the checksums what else have you done to troubleshoot the issue? Have you looked at logs, run fsck or anything?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am unsure what logs to look at for this and have not done any filesystem check on the harddrive as I am unfamiliar with these tools. It's an external Seagate HDD with an ext4 filesystem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If you have time to not use the drive, you could use badblocks to test it. I usually use it with -svn as the options. s=Show progress, v=Verbose Mode, and n=Non destructive read/write mode,