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20 .TH "SMBTAR" 1 "" "" ""
22 smbtar \- shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares directly to UNIX tape drives
26 \fBsmbtar\fR [-r] [-i] [-a] [-v] {-s server} [-p password] [-x services] [-X] [-N filename]
27 [-b blocksize] [-d directory] [-l loglevel] [-u user] [-t tape] {filenames}
34 This tool is part of the \fBSamba\fR(7) suite\&.
37 \fBsmbtar\fR is a very small shell script on top of \fBsmbclient\fR(1) which dumps SMB shares directly to tape\&.
43 The SMB/CIFS server that the share resides upon\&.
48 The share name on the server to connect to\&. The default is "backup"\&.
53 Exclude mode\&. Exclude filenames\&.\&.\&. from tar create or restore\&.
58 Change to initial \fIdirectory \fR before restoring / backing up files\&.
68 The password to use to access a share\&. Default: none
73 The user id to connect as\&. Default: UNIX login name\&.
78 Reset DOS archive bit mode to indicate file has been archived\&.
83 Tape device\&. May be regular file or tape device\&. Default: \fI$TAPE\fR environmental variable; if not set, a file called \fItar\&.out \fR\&.
88 Blocking factor\&. Defaults to 20\&. See \fBtar(1)\fR for a fuller explanation\&.
93 Backup only files newer than filename\&. Could be used (for example) on a log file to implement incremental backups\&.
98 Incremental mode; tar files are only backed up if they have the archive bit set\&. The archive bit is reset after each file is read\&.
103 Restore\&. Files are restored to the share from the tar file\&.
108 Log (debug) level\&. Corresponds to the \fI-d\fR flag of \fBsmbclient\fR(1)\&.
111 .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
114 The \fI$TAPE\fR variable specifies the default tape device to write to\&. May be overridden with the -t option\&.
119 The \fBsmbtar\fR script has different options from ordinary tar and from smbclient's tar command\&.
124 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\&.
129 See the \fBDIAGNOSTICS\fR section for the \fBsmbclient\fR(1) command\&.
134 This man page is correct for version 3\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
139 \fBsmbd\fR(8), \fBsmbclient\fR(1), \fBsmb.conf\fR(5)\&.
144 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\&.
147 Ricky Poulten wrote the tar extension and this man page\&. The \fBsmbtar\fR script was heavily rewritten and improved by Martin 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 ftp://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\&.