SMBTAR(1)SMBTAR(1)NAMEsmbtar - shell script for backing up SMB shares directly to UNIX tape
drive
SYNOPSISsmbtar-s server [ -p password ] [ -x service ] [ -X ] [ -d directory ]
[ -u user ] [ -t tape ] [ -b blocksize ] [ -N filename ] [ -i ] [ -r ]
[ -l log level ] [ -v ] filenames...
DESCRIPTION
This program is an extension to the Samba suite.
smbtar is a very small shell script on top of smbclient, which dumps
SMB shares directly to tape.
OPTIONS-s server
The PC that the share resides upon.
-x service
The share name on the PC to connect to. Default: backup.
-X
Exclude mode. Exclude filenames... from tar create or restore.
-d directory
Change to initial directory before restoring / backing up files.
-v
Verbose mode.
-p password
The password to use to access a share. Default: none
-u user
The user id to connect as. Default: UNIX login name.
-t tape
Tape device. May be regular file or tape device. Default: Tape
environmental variable; if not set, a file called tar.out.
-b blocksize
Blocking factor. Defaults to 20. See tar(1) for a fuller
explanation.
-N filename
Backup only files newer than filename. Could be used (for example)
on a log file to implement incremental backups.
-i
Incremental mode; tar files are only backed up if they have the
archive bit set. The archive bit is reset after each file is read.
-r
Restore. Files are restored to the share from the tar file.
-l log level
Log (debug) level. Corresponds to -d flag of smbclient(1).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The TAPE variable specifies the default tape device to write to. May be
overidden with the -t option.
BUGS
The smbtar script has different options from ordinary tar and tar
called from smbclient.
CAVEATS
Sites that are more careful about security may not like the way the
script handles PC passwords. Backup and restore work on entire shares,
should work on file lists.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 1.9.15p8 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSOsmbclient(8), smb.conf(8)DIAGNOSTICS
See diagnostics for smbclient command.
CREDITS
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
Andrew Tridgell (samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au). Andrew is also the
Keeper of the Source for this project.
Ricky Poulten (poultenr@logica.co.uk) wrote the tar extension and this
man page. The smbtar script was heavily rewritten and improved by
Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>. Many thanks to everyone who
suggested extensions, improvements, bug fixes, etc.
See smb.conf(5) for a full list of contributors and details of how to
submit bug reports, comments etc.
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