smbtar

' 'u smbtar [ -r] [ -i] [ -a] [ -v] { -s server} [ -p password] [ -x services] [ -X] [ -N filename] [ -b blocksize] [ -d directory] [ -l loglevel] [ -u user] [ -t tape] {filenames}

This tool is part of the samba (7) suite .

smbtar is a very small shell script on top of smbclient (1) which dumps SMB shares directly to tape .

-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 .

-a Reset DOS archive bit mode to indicate file has been archived .

-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 the -d flag of smbclient (1).

The $TAPE variable specifies the default tape device to write to . May be overridden with the -t option .

The smbtar script has different options from ordinary tar and from smbclient (Aqs tar command .

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 .

See the DIAGNOSTICS section for the smbclient (1) command .

This man page is part of version 4 .10 .6 of the Samba suite .

smbd(8), smbclient(1), smb.conf(5).

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 wrote the tar extension and this man page . The smbtar script was heavily rewritten and improved by Martin Kraemer . 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/) and updated for the Samba 2 .0 release by Jeremy Allison . The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2 .2 was done by Gerald Carter . The conversion to DocBook XML 4 .2 for Samba 3 .0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy .