1 .TH SMBTAR 1 smbtar smbtar
3 smbtar \- shell script for backing up SMB shares directly to UNIX tape drive
43 This program is an extension to the Samba suite.
46 is a very small shell script on top of
48 which dumps SMB shares directly to tape.
53 The PC that the share resides upon.
59 The share name on the PC to connect to. Default:
67 from tar create or restore.
75 before restoring / backing up files.
87 The password to use to access a share. Default: none
93 The user id to connect as. Default: UNIX login name.
99 Tape device. May be regular file or tape device. Default: Tape environmental
100 variable; if not set, a file called
107 Blocking factor. Defaults to 20. See
109 for a fuller explanation.
115 Backup only files newer than filename. Could be used (for example) on a log
116 file to implement incremental backups.
121 Incremental mode; tar files are only backed up if they have the
122 archive bit set. The archive bit is reset after each file is read.
127 Restore. Files are restored to the share from the tar file.
133 Log (debug) level. Corresponds to
138 .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
139 The TAPE variable specifies the default tape device to write to. May
140 be overridden with the
146 script has different options from ordinary tar and tar
150 Sites that are more careful about security may not like the way
151 the script handles PC passwords. Backup and restore work on entire shares,
152 should work on file lists.
154 This man page is correct for version 1.9.15p8 of the Samba suite.
163 The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
164 Andrew Tridgell (samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au). Andrew is also the Keeper
165 of the Source for this project.
167 Ricky Poulten (poultenr@logica.co.uk) wrote the tar extension and this
170 script was heavily rewritten and improved by
171 Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>. Many thanks to everyone
172 who suggested extensions, improvements, bug fixes, etc.
176 for a full list of contributors and details of how to submit bug reports,