SMBTAR(1) UNIX System V (19 November 2002) SMBTAR(1)
NAME
smbtar - shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares
directly to UNIX tape drives
SYNOPSIS
smbtar -s server [ -p password ] [ -x services ] [ -X ] [
-d directory ] [ -u user ] [ -t tape ] [ -t tape ] [ -b
blocksize ] [ -N filename ] [ -i ] [ -r ] [ -l loglevel
] [ -v ] filenames
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba suite.
smbtar is a very small shell script on top of smbclient(1)
which dumps SMB shares directly to tape.
OPTIONS
-s server
The SMB/CIFS server that the share resides upon.
-x service
The share name on the server to connect to. The default
is "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.
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SMBTAR(1) UNIX System V (19 November 2002) SMBTAR(1)-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 the -d flag of
smbclient(1) .
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The $TAPE variable specifies the default tape device to
write to. May be overridden 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. smbtar works
best with GNU tar and may not work well with other versions.
DIAGNOSTICS
See the DIAGNOSTICS section for the smbclient(1)
command.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
smbd(8)smbclient(1)smb.conf(5)
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were
created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the
Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
Linux kernel is developed.
Ricky Poulten <URL:mailto:poultenr@logica.co.uk> wrote the
tar extension and this man page. The smbtar script was
heavily rewritten and improved by Martin Kraemer
<URL:mailto:Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>. Many thanks to
everyone who suggested extensions, improvements, bug fixes,
etc. The man page sources were converted to YODL format
(another excellent piece of Open Source software, available
at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/
<URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the
Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter.
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