mailto(samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au) manpage(smbtar)(1)(23 Oct 1998)(Samba)(SAMBA) label(NAME) manpagename(smbtar)(shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares directly to UNIX tape drives) label(SYNOPSIS) manpagesynopsis() bf(smbtar) link(-s server)(minuss) [link(-p password)(minusp)] [link(-x service)(minusx)] [link(-X)(minusX)] [link(-d directory)(minusd)] [link(-u user)(minusu)] [link(-t tape)(minust)] [link(-b blocksize)(minusb)] [link(-N filename)(minusN)] [link(-i)(minusi)] [link(-r)(minusr)] [link(-l log level)(minusl)] [link(-v)(minusv)] filenames label(DESCRIPTION) manpagedescription() This program is part of the bf(Samba) suite. bf(smbtar) is a very small shell script on top of url(bf(smbclient))(smbclient.1.html) which dumps SMB shares directly to tape. label(OPTIONS) manpageoptions() startdit() label(minuss) dit(bf(-s server)) The SMB/CIFS server that the share resides upon. label(minusx) dit(bf(-x service)) The share name on the server to connect to. The default is tt(backup). label(minusX) dit(bf(-X)) Exclude mode. Exclude filenames... from tar create or restore. label(minusd) dit(bf(-d directory)) Change to initial em(directory) before restoring / backing up files. label(minusv) dit(bf(-v)) Verbose mode. label(minusp) dit(bf(-p password)) The password to use to access a share. Default: none label(minusu) dit(bf(-u user)) The user id to connect as. Default: UNIX login name. label(minust) dit(bf(-t tape)) Tape device. May be regular file or tape device. Default: em(TAPE) environmental variable; if not set, a file called tt(tar.out). label(minusb) dit(bf(-b blocksize)) Blocking factor. Defaults to 20. See bf(tar (1)) for a fuller explanation. label(minusN) dit(bf(-N filename)) Backup only files newer than filename. Could be used (for example) on a log file to implement incremental backups. label(minusi) dit(bf(-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. label(minusr) dit(bf(-r)) Restore. Files are restored to the share from the tar file. label(minusl) dit(bf(-l log level)) Log (debug) level. Corresponds to the url(bf(-d))(smbclient.1.html#minusd) flag of url(bf(smbclient (1)))(smbclient.1.html). enddit() label(ENVIRONMENTVARIABLES) manpagesection(ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES) The TAPE variable specifies the default tape device to write to. May be overridden with the link(bf(-t))(minust) option. label(BUGS) manpagesection(BUGS) The bf(smbtar) script has different options from ordinary tar and tar called from url(bf(smbclient))(smbclient.1.html). label(CAVEATS) manpagesection(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. bf(smbtar) works best with GNU tar and may not work well with other versions. label(VERSION) manpagesection(VERSION) This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite. label(SEEALSO) manpageseealso() url(bf(smbclient (1)))(smbclient.1.html), url(bf(smb.conf (5)))(smb.conf.5.html) label(DIAGNOSTICS) manpagesection(DIAGNOSTICS) See the url(bf(DIAGNOSTICS))(smbclient.1.html#DIAGNOSTICS) section for the url(bf(smbclient))(smbclient.1.html) command. label(AUTHOR) manpageauthor() The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell email(samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au). Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. Ricky Poulten email(poultenr@logica.co.uk) wrote the tar extension and this man page. The bf(smbtar) script was heavily rewritten and improved by Martin Kraemer email(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) and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy Allison, email(samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au). See url(bf(samba (7)))(samba.7.html) to find out how to get a full list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports, comments etc.