1 .TH SMBTAR 1 18/2/96 smbtar smbtar
3 smbtar \- shell script for backing up SMB shares directly to UNIX tape drive
37 This program is an extension to the Samba suite.
40 is a very small shell script on top of smbclient, which dumps SMB
41 shares directly to tape.
47 The PC that the share resides upon.
53 The share name on the PC to connect to. Default:
61 from tar create or restore.
69 before restoring / backing up files.
81 The password to use to access a share. Default: none
87 The user id to connect as. Default: UNIX login name.
93 Tape device. May be regular file or tape device. Default: Tape environmental
94 variable; if not set, a file called
101 Blocking factor. Defaults to 20. See tar(1) for a fuller explanation.
107 Backup only files newer than filename. Could be used (for example) on a log
108 file to implement incremental backups.
113 Incremental mode; tar files are only backed up if they have the
114 archive bit set. The archive bit is reset after each file is read.
119 Restore. Files are restored to the share from the tar file.
124 Debug level. Corresponds to -d flag on smbclient(1).
127 .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
128 The TAPE variable specifies the default tape device to write to. May
129 be overidden with the -t option.
132 The smbtar script has different options from ordinary tar and tar
133 called from smbclient.
136 Sites that are more careful about security may not like the way
137 the script handles PC passwords. Backup and restore work on entire shares,
138 should work on file lists.
141 This man page is correct for version 1.9.15p8 of the Samba suite.
154 The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
155 Andrew Tridgell (samba-bugs@anu.edu.au). Andrew is also the Keeper
156 of the Source for this project.
158 Ricky Poulten (poultenr@logica.co.uk) wrote the tar extension and this
159 man page. The smbtar script was heavily rewritten and improved by
160 Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>. Many thanks to everyone
161 who suggested extensions, improvements, bug fixes, etc.
165 (5) for a full list of contributors and details of how to submit bug reports,