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1.\" Title: smbtar
2.\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section]
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4.\" Date: 02/22/2010
5.\" Manual: User Commands
6.\" Source: Samba 3.3
7.\" Language: English
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9.TH "SMBTAR" "1" "02/22/2010" "Samba 3\&.3" "User Commands"
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169.SH "Name"
170smbtar \- shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares directly to UNIX tape drives
171.SH "Synopsis"
172.fam C
173.HP \w'\ 'u
174\FCsmbtar\F[] [\-r] [\-i] [\-a] [\-v] {\-s\ server} [\-p\ password] [\-x\ services] [\-X] [\-N\ filename] [\-b\ blocksize] [\-d\ directory] [\-l\ loglevel] [\-u\ user] [\-t\ tape] {filenames}
175.fam
176.SH "DESCRIPTION"
177.PP
178This tool is part of the
179\fBsamba\fR(7)
180suite\&.
181.PP
182\FCsmbtar\F[]
183is a very small shell script on top of
184\fBsmbclient\fR(1)
185which dumps SMB shares directly to tape\&.
186.SH "OPTIONS"
187.PP
188\-s server
189.RS 4
190The SMB/CIFS server that the share resides upon\&.
191.RE
192.PP
193\-x service
194.RS 4
195The share name on the server to connect to\&. The default is "backup"\&.
196.RE
197.PP
198\-X
199.RS 4
200Exclude mode\&. Exclude filenames\&.\&.\&. from tar create or restore\&.
201.RE
202.PP
203\-d directory
204.RS 4
205Change to initial
206\fIdirectory \fR
207before restoring / backing up files\&.
208.RE
209.PP
210\-v
211.RS 4
212Verbose mode\&.
213.RE
214.PP
215\-p password
216.RS 4
217The password to use to access a share\&. Default: none
218.RE
219.PP
220\-u user
221.RS 4
222The user id to connect as\&. Default: UNIX login name\&.
223.RE
224.PP
225\-a
226.RS 4
227Reset DOS archive bit mode to indicate file has been archived\&.
228.RE
229.PP
230\-t tape
231.RS 4
232Tape device\&. May be regular file or tape device\&. Default:
233\fI$TAPE\fR
234environmental variable; if not set, a file called
235\FCtar\&.out \F[]\&.
236.RE
237.PP
238\-b blocksize
239.RS 4
240Blocking factor\&. Defaults to 20\&. See
241\FCtar(1)\F[]
242for a fuller explanation\&.
243.RE
244.PP
245\-N filename
246.RS 4
247Backup only files newer than filename\&. Could be used (for example) on a log file to implement incremental backups\&.
248.RE
249.PP
250\-i
251.RS 4
252Incremental mode; tar files are only backed up if they have the archive bit set\&. The archive bit is reset after each file is read\&.
253.RE
254.PP
255\-r
256.RS 4
257Restore\&. Files are restored to the share from the tar file\&.
258.RE
259.PP
260\-l log level
261.RS 4
262Log (debug) level\&. Corresponds to the
263\fI\-d\fR
264flag of
265\fBsmbclient\fR(1)\&.
266.RE
267.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
268.PP
269The
270\fI$TAPE\fR
271variable specifies the default tape device to write to\&. May be overridden with the \-t option\&.
272.SH "BUGS"
273.PP
274The
275\FCsmbtar\F[]
276script has different options from ordinary tar and from smbclient\'s tar command\&.
277.SH "CAVEATS"
278.PP
279Sites 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\&.
280.SH "DIAGNOSTICS"
281.PP
282See the
283\fIDIAGNOSTICS\fR
284section for the
285\fBsmbclient\fR(1)
286command\&.
287.SH "VERSION"
288.PP
289This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite\&.
290.SH "SEE ALSO"
291.PP
292\fBsmbd\fR(8),
293\fBsmbclient\fR(1),
294\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)\&.
295.SH "AUTHOR"
296.PP
297The 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\&.
298.PP
299Ricky Poulten
300wrote the tar extension and this man page\&. The
301\FCsmbtar\F[]
302script was heavily rewritten and improved by
303Martin 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
304ftp://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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