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+<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>smbtar</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="smbtar.1"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbtar — shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares
+ directly to UNIX tape drives</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">smbtar</code> [-r] [-i] [-a] [-v] {-s server} [-p password] [-x services] [-X] [-N filename] [-b blocksize] [-d directory] [-l loglevel] [-u user] [-t tape] {filenames}</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2450656"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p><span><strong class="command">smbtar</strong></span> is a very small shell script on top
+ of <a href="smbclient.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbclient</span>(1)</span></a> which dumps SMB shares directly to tape.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2450690"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-s server</span></dt><dd><p>The SMB/CIFS server that the share resides
+ upon.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-x service</span></dt><dd><p>The share name on the server to connect to.
+ The default is "backup".</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-X</span></dt><dd><p>Exclude mode. Exclude filenames... from tar
+ create or restore. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d directory</span></dt><dd><p>Change to initial <em class="parameter"><code>directory
+ </code></em> before restoring / backing up files. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-v</span></dt><dd><p>Verbose mode.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-p password</span></dt><dd><p>The password to use to access a share.
+ Default: none </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-u user</span></dt><dd><p>The user id to connect as. Default:
+ UNIX login name. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-a</span></dt><dd><p>Reset DOS archive bit mode to
+ indicate file has been archived. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-t tape</span></dt><dd><p>Tape device. May be regular file or tape
+ device. Default: <em class="parameter"><code>$TAPE</code></em> environmental
+ variable; if not set, a file called <code class="filename">tar.out
+ </code>. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-b blocksize</span></dt><dd><p>Blocking factor. Defaults to 20. See
+ <span><strong class="command">tar(1)</strong></span> for a fuller explanation. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-N filename</span></dt><dd><p>Backup only files newer than filename. Could
+ be used (for example) on a log file to implement incremental
+ backups. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-i</span></dt><dd><p>Incremental mode; tar files are only backed
+ up if they have the archive bit set. The archive bit is reset
+ after each file is read. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-r</span></dt><dd><p>Restore. Files are restored to the share
+ from the tar file. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l log level</span></dt><dd><p>Log (debug) level. Corresponds to the
+ <em class="parameter"><code>-d</code></em> flag of <a href="smbclient.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbclient</span>(1)</span></a>.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2450977"></a><h2>ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</h2><p>The <em class="parameter"><code>$TAPE</code></em> variable specifies the
+ default tape device to write to. May be overridden
+ with the -t option. </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2450994"></a><h2>BUGS</h2><p>The <span><strong class="command">smbtar</strong></span> script has different
+ options from ordinary tar and from smbclient's tar command. </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2451012"></a><h2>CAVEATS</h2><p>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. </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2451026"></a><h2>DIAGNOSTICS</h2><p>See the <span class="emphasis"><em>DIAGNOSTICS</em></span> section for the <a href="smbclient.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbclient</span>(1)</span></a> command.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2451049"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
+ the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2451060"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>, <a href="smbclient.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbclient</span>(1)</span></a>, <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2451094"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>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.</p><p><a href="mailto:poultenr@logica.co.uk" target="_top">Ricky Poulten</a>
+ wrote the tar extension and this man page. The <span><strong class="command">smbtar</strong></span>
+ script was heavily rewritten and improved by <a href="mailto:Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de" target="_top">Martin Kraemer</a>. 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 <a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top">
+ ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) 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.</p></div></div></body></html>
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