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SMBTAR(1)                                                                                          SMBTAR(1)



NAME
       smbtar - shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares directly to UNIX tape drives

SYNOPSIS
       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}

DESCRIPTION
       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.

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.

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          Reset DOS archive bit mode to indicate file has been archived.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

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 from smbclient's tar command.

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 3.0 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 devel-oped. developed.
       oped.

       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.




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