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  17 ><A
  18 NAME="SMBTAR"
  19 ></A
  20 >smbtar</H1
  21 ><DIV
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  23 ><A
  24 NAME="AEN5"
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  26 ><H2
  27 >Name</H2
  28 >smbtar&nbsp;--&nbsp;shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares
  29         directly to UNIX tape drives</DIV
  30 ><DIV
  31 CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV"
  32 ><A
  33 NAME="AEN8"
  34 ></A
  35 ><H2
  36 >Synopsis</H2
  37 ><P
  38 ><B
  39 CLASS="COMMAND"
  40 >smbtar</B
  41 >  {-s server} [-p password] [-x services] [-X] [-d directory] [-u user] [-t tape] [-t tape] [-b blocksize] [-N filename] [-i] [-r] [-l loglevel] [-v] {filenames}</P
  42 ></DIV
  43 ><DIV
  44 CLASS="REFSECT1"
  45 ><A
  46 NAME="AEN26"
  47 ></A
  48 ><H2
  49 >DESCRIPTION</H2
  50 ><P
  51 >This tool is part of the <A
  52 HREF="samba.7.html"
  53 TARGET="_top"
  54 >       Samba</A
  55 > suite.</P
  56 ><P
  57 ><B
  58 CLASS="COMMAND"
  59 >smbtar</B
  60 > is a very small shell script on top
  61         of <A
  62 HREF="smbclient.1.html"
  63 TARGET="_top"
  64 ><B
  65 CLASS="COMMAND"
  66 >smbclient(1)</B
  67 ></A
  68 >
  69         which dumps SMB shares directly to tape. </P
  70 ></DIV
  71 ><DIV
  72 CLASS="REFSECT1"
  73 ><A
  74 NAME="AEN34"
  75 ></A
  76 ><H2
  77 >OPTIONS</H2
  78 ><P
  79 ></P
  80 ><DIV
  81 CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
  82 ><DL
  83 ><DT
  84 >-s server</DT
  85 ><DD
  86 ><P
  87 >The SMB/CIFS server that the share resides
  88                 upon.</P
  89 ></DD
  90 ><DT
  91 >-x service</DT
  92 ><DD
  93 ><P
  94 >The share name on the server to connect to.
  95                 The default is "backup".</P
  96 ></DD
  97 ><DT
  98 >-X</DT
  99 ><DD
 100 ><P
 101 >Exclude mode. Exclude filenames... from tar
 102                 create or restore. </P
 103 ></DD
 104 ><DT
 105 >-d directory</DT
 106 ><DD
 107 ><P
 108 >Change to initial <TT
 109 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 110 ><I
 111 >directory
 112                 </I
 113 ></TT
 114 > before restoring / backing up files. </P
 115 ></DD
 116 ><DT
 117 >-v</DT
 118 ><DD
 119 ><P
 120 >Verbose mode.</P
 121 ></DD
 122 ><DT
 123 >-p password</DT
 124 ><DD
 125 ><P
 126 >The password to use to access a share.
 127                 Default: none </P
 128 ></DD
 129 ><DT
 130 >-u user</DT
 131 ><DD
 132 ><P
 133 >The user id to connect as. Default:
 134                 UNIX login name. </P
 135 ></DD
 136 ><DT
 137 >-t tape</DT
 138 ><DD
 139 ><P
 140 >Tape device. May be regular file or tape
 141                 device. Default: <TT
 142 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 143 ><I
 144 >$TAPE</I
 145 ></TT
 146 > environmental
 147                 variable; if not set, a file called <TT
 148 CLASS="FILENAME"
 149 >tar.out
 150                 </TT
 151 >. </P
 152 ></DD
 153 ><DT
 154 >-b blocksize</DT
 155 ><DD
 156 ><P
 157 >Blocking factor. Defaults to 20. See
 158                 <B
 159 CLASS="COMMAND"
 160 >tar(1)</B
 161 > for a fuller explanation. </P
 162 ></DD
 163 ><DT
 164 >-N filename</DT
 165 ><DD
 166 ><P
 167 >Backup only files newer than filename. Could
 168                 be used (for example) on a log file to implement incremental
 169                 backups. </P
 170 ></DD
 171 ><DT
 172 >-i</DT
 173 ><DD
 174 ><P
 175 >Incremental mode; tar files are only backed
 176                 up if they have the archive bit set. The archive bit is reset
 177                 after each file is read. </P
 178 ></DD
 179 ><DT
 180 >-r</DT
 181 ><DD
 182 ><P
 183 >Restore. Files are restored to the share
 184                 from the tar file. </P
 185 ></DD
 186 ><DT
 187 >-l log level</DT
 188 ><DD
 189 ><P
 190 >Log (debug) level. Corresponds to the
 191                 <TT
 192 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 193 ><I
 194 >-d</I
 195 ></TT
 196 > flag of <B
 197 CLASS="COMMAND"
 198 >smbclient(1)
 199                 </B
 200 >. </P
 201 ></DD
 202 ></DL
 203 ></DIV
 204 ></DIV
 205 ><DIV
 206 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 207 ><A
 208 NAME="AEN95"
 209 ></A
 210 ><H2
 211 >ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</H2
 212 ><P
 213 >The <TT
 214 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 215 ><I
 216 >$TAPE</I
 217 ></TT
 218 > variable specifies the
 219         default tape device to write to. May be overridden
 220         with the -t option. </P
 221 ></DIV
 222 ><DIV
 223 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 224 ><A
 225 NAME="AEN99"
 226 ></A
 227 ><H2
 228 >BUGS</H2
 229 ><P
 230 >The <B
 231 CLASS="COMMAND"
 232 >smbtar</B
 233 > script has different
 234         options from ordinary tar and from smbclient's tar command. </P
 235 ></DIV
 236 ><DIV
 237 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 238 ><A
 239 NAME="AEN103"
 240 ></A
 241 ><H2
 242 >CAVEATS</H2
 243 ><P
 244 >Sites that are more careful about security may not like
 245         the way the script handles PC passwords. Backup and restore work
 246         on entire shares; should work on file lists. smbtar works best
 247         with GNU tar and may not work well with other versions. </P
 248 ></DIV
 249 ><DIV
 250 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 251 ><A
 252 NAME="AEN106"
 253 ></A
 254 ><H2
 255 >DIAGNOSTICS</H2
 256 ><P
 257 >See the <SPAN
 258 CLASS="emphasis"
 259 ><I
 260 CLASS="EMPHASIS"
 261 >DIAGNOSTICS</I
 262 ></SPAN
 263 > section for the
 264         <A
 265 HREF="smbclient.1.html"
 266 TARGET="_top"
 267 ><B
 268 CLASS="COMMAND"
 269 >smbclient(1)</B
 270 >
 271         </A
 272 > command.</P
 273 ></DIV
 274 ><DIV
 275 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 276 ><A
 277 NAME="AEN112"
 278 ></A
 279 ><H2
 280 >VERSION</H2
 281 ><P
 282 >This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
 283         the Samba suite.</P
 284 ></DIV
 285 ><DIV
 286 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 287 ><A
 288 NAME="AEN115"
 289 ></A
 290 ><H2
 291 >SEE ALSO</H2
 292 ><P
 293 ><A
 294 HREF="smbd.8.html"
 295 TARGET="_top"
 296 ><B
 297 CLASS="COMMAND"
 298 >smbd(8)</B
 299 ></A
 300 >,
 301         <A
 302 HREF="smbclient.1.html"
 303 TARGET="_top"
 304 ><B
 305 CLASS="COMMAND"
 306 >smbclient(1)</B
 307 ></A
 308 >,
 309         <A
 310 HREF="smb.conf.5.html"
 311 TARGET="_top"
 312 >smb.conf(5)</A
 313 >,
 314         </P
 315 ></DIV
 316 ><DIV
 317 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 318 ><A
 319 NAME="AEN123"
 320 ></A
 321 ><H2
 322 >AUTHOR</H2
 323 ><P
 324 >The original Samba software and related utilities
 325         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
 326         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
 327         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</P
 328 ><P
 329 ><A
 330 HREF="mailto:poultenr@logica.co.uk"
 331 TARGET="_top"
 332 >Ricky Poulten</A
 333 >
 334         wrote the tar extension and this man page. The <B
 335 CLASS="COMMAND"
 336 >smbtar</B
 337 >
 338         script was heavily rewritten and improved by <A
 339 HREF="mailto:Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de"
 340 TARGET="_top"
 341 >Martin Kraemer</A
 342 >. Many
 343         thanks to everyone who suggested extensions, improvements, bug
 344         fixes, etc. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
 345         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
 346         <A
 347 HREF="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"
 348 TARGET="_top"
 349 >       ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</A
 350 >) and updated for the Samba 2.0
 351         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
 352         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter.</P
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