docs-xml/manpages/smbtar.1.xml

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   3 <refentry id="smbtar.1">
   4
   5 <refmeta>
   6         <refentrytitle>smbtar</refentrytitle>
   7         <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
   8         <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
   9         <refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
  10         <refmiscinfo class="version">4.2</refmiscinfo>
  11 </refmeta>
  12
  13
  14 <refnamediv>
  15         <refname>smbtar</refname>
  16         <refpurpose>shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares
  17         directly to UNIX tape drives</refpurpose>
  18 </refnamediv>
  19
  20 <refsynopsisdiv>
  21         <cmdsynopsis>
  22                 <command>smbtar</command>
  23                 <arg choice="opt">-r</arg>
  24                 <arg choice="opt">-i</arg>
  25                 <arg choice="opt">-a</arg>
  26                 <arg choice="opt">-v</arg>
  27                 <arg choice="req">-s server</arg>
  28                 <arg choice="opt">-p password</arg>
  29                 <arg choice="opt">-x services</arg>
  30                 <arg choice="opt">-X</arg>
  31                 <arg choice="opt">-N filename</arg>
  32                 <arg choice="opt">-b blocksize</arg>
  33                 <arg choice="opt">-d directory</arg>
  34                 <arg choice="opt">-l loglevel</arg>
  35                 <arg choice="opt">-u user</arg>
  36                 <arg choice="opt">-t tape</arg>
  37                 <arg choice="req">filenames</arg>
  38         </cmdsynopsis>
  39 </refsynopsisdiv>
  40
  41 <refsect1>
  42         <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
  43
  44         <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
  45         <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
  46
  47         <para><command>smbtar</command> is a very small shell script on top
  48         of <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  49         </citerefentry> which dumps SMB shares directly to tape.</para>
  50 </refsect1>
  51
  52 <refsect1>
  53         <title>OPTIONS</title>
  54
  55         <variablelist>
  56                 <varlistentry>
  57                 <term>-s server</term>
  58                 <listitem><para>The SMB/CIFS server that the share resides
  59                 upon.</para></listitem>
  60                 </varlistentry>
  61
  62
  63                 <varlistentry>
  64                 <term>-x service</term>
  65                 <listitem><para>The share name on the server to connect to.
  66                 The default is "backup".</para></listitem>
  67                 </varlistentry>
  68
  69
  70                 <varlistentry>
  71                 <term>-X</term>
  72                 <listitem><para>Exclude mode. Exclude filenames... from tar
  73                 create or restore. </para></listitem>
  74                 </varlistentry>
  75
  76
  77
  78                 <varlistentry>
  79                 <term>-d directory</term>
  80                 <listitem><para>Change to initial <parameter>directory
  81                 </parameter> before restoring / backing up files. </para></listitem>
  82                 </varlistentry>
  83
  84
  85
  86                 <varlistentry>
  87                 <term>-v</term>
  88                 <listitem><para>Verbose mode.</para></listitem>
  89                 </varlistentry>
  90
  91
  92
  93                 <varlistentry>
  94                 <term>-p password</term>
  95                 <listitem><para>The password to use to access a share.
  96                 Default: none </para></listitem>
  97                 </varlistentry>
  98
  99
 100                 <varlistentry>
 101                 <term>-u user</term>
 102                 <listitem><para>The user id to connect as. Default:
 103                 UNIX login name. </para></listitem>
 104                 </varlistentry>
 105
 106
 107                 <varlistentry>
 108                 <term>-a</term>
 109                 <listitem><para>Reset DOS archive bit mode to
 110                 indicate file has been archived. </para></listitem>
 111                 </varlistentry>
 112
 113                 <varlistentry>
 114                 <term>-t tape</term>
 115                 <listitem><para>Tape device. May be regular file or tape
 116                 device. Default: <parameter>$TAPE</parameter> environmental
 117                 variable; if not set, a file called <filename>tar.out
 118                 </filename>. </para></listitem>
 119                 </varlistentry>
 120
 121
 122                 <varlistentry>
 123                 <term>-b blocksize</term>
 124                 <listitem><para>Blocking factor. Defaults to 20. See
 125                 <command>tar(1)</command> for a fuller explanation. </para></listitem>
 126                 </varlistentry>
 127
 128
 129                 <varlistentry>
 130                 <term>-N filename</term>
 131                 <listitem><para>Backup only files newer than filename. Could
 132                 be used (for example) on a log file to implement incremental
 133                 backups. </para></listitem>
 134                 </varlistentry>
 135
 136
 137                 <varlistentry>
 138                 <term>-i</term>
 139                 <listitem><para>Incremental mode; tar files are only backed
 140                 up if they have the archive bit set. The archive bit is reset
 141                 after each file is read. </para></listitem>
 142                 </varlistentry>
 143
 144
 145                 <varlistentry>
 146                 <term>-r</term>
 147                 <listitem><para>Restore. Files are restored to the share
 148                 from the tar file. </para></listitem>
 149                 </varlistentry>
 150
 151
 152
 153                 <varlistentry>
 154                 <term>-l log level</term>
 155                 <listitem><para>Log (debug) level. Corresponds to the
 156                 <parameter>-d</parameter> flag of <citerefentry>
 157                 <refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
 158                 </citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
 159                 </varlistentry>
 160         </variablelist>
 161 </refsect1>
 162
 163
 164 <refsect1>
 165         <title>ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</title>
 166
 167         <para>The <parameter>$TAPE</parameter> variable specifies the
 168         default tape device to write to. May be overridden
 169         with the -t option. </para>
 170 </refsect1>
 171
 172
 173 <refsect1>
 174         <title>BUGS</title>
 175
 176         <para>The <command>smbtar</command> script has different
 177         options from ordinary tar and from smbclient's tar command. </para>
 178
 179 </refsect1>
 180
 181 <refsect1>
 182         <title>CAVEATS</title>
 183
 184         <para>Sites that are more careful about security may not like
 185         the way the script handles PC passwords. Backup and restore work
 186         on entire shares; should work on file lists. smbtar works best
 187         with GNU tar and may not work well with other versions. </para>
 188 </refsect1>
 189
 190
 191 <refsect1>
 192         <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
 193
 194         <para>See the <emphasis>DIAGNOSTICS</emphasis> section for the <citerefentry>
 195         <refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
 196         </citerefentry> command.</para>
 197 </refsect1>
 198
 199
 200 <refsect1>
 201         <title>VERSION</title>
 202
 203         <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of
 204         the Samba suite.</para>
 205 </refsect1>
 206
 207 <refsect1>
 208         <title>SEE ALSO</title>
 209         <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
 210         <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
 211         <refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
 212         </citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
 213         <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
 214 </refsect1>
 215
 216 <refsect1>
 217         <title>AUTHOR</title>
 218
 219         <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
 220         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
 221         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
 222         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
 223
 224 <para><ulink noescape="1" url="mailto:poultenr@logica.co.uk">Ricky Poulten</ulink>
 225         wrote the tar extension and this man page. The <command>smbtar</command>
 226         script was heavily rewritten and improved by <ulink noescape="1"
 227         url="mailto:Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de">Martin Kraemer</ulink>. Many
 228         thanks to everyone who suggested extensions, improvements, bug
 229         fixes, etc. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
 230         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink noescape="1" url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
 231         ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
 232         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
 233         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for
 234         Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>
 235 </refsect1>
 236
 237 </refentry>