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SMBTAR(1)							    SMBTAR(1)



NAME
       smbtar  - shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares directly to UNIX
       tape drives

SYNOPSIS
       smbtar [-r] [-i] [-a] [-v] {-sserver} [-ppassword]  [-xservices]	 [-X]
	[-Nfilename]   [-bblocksize]   [-ddirectory]   [-lloglevel]  [-uuser]
	[-ttape] {filenames}

DESCRIPTION
       This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

       smbtar is a very small shell script on top of smbclient(1) which dumps
       SMB shares directly to tape.

OPTIONS
       -s server
	  The SMB/CIFS server that the share resides upon.

       -x service
	  The  share  name  on	the  server  to	 connect  to.  The default is
	  "backup".

       -X
	  Exclude mode. Exclude filenames... from tar create or restore.

       -d directory
	  Change to initial directory before restoring / backing up files.

       -v
	  Verbose mode.

       -p password
	  The password to use to access a share. Default: none

       -u user
	  The user id to connect as. Default: UNIX login name.

       -a
	  Reset DOS archive bit mode to indicate file has been archived.

       -t tape
	  Tape device. May be regular file or  tape  device.  Default:	$TAPE
	  environmental variable; if not set, a file called tar.out .

       -b blocksize
	  Blocking  factor.  Defaults to 20. See tar(1) for a fuller explana-
	  tion.

       -N filename
	  Backup only files newer than filename. Could be used (for  example)
	  on a log file to implement incremental backups.

       -i
	  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.

       -r
	  Restore. Files are restored to the share from the tar file.

       -l log level
	  Log (debug) level. Corresponds to the -d flag of smbclient(1).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The  $TAPE variable specifies the default tape device to write to. May
       be overridden with the -t option.

BUGS
       The smbtar script has different options from  ordinary  tar  and	 from
       smbclient’s tar command.

CAVEATS
       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.

DIAGNOSTICS
       See the DIAGNOSTICS section for the smbclient(1) command.

VERSION
       This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO
       smbd(8), smbclient(1), smb.conf(5).

AUTHOR
       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.

       Ricky Poulten wrote the tar extension and this man  page.  The  smbtar
       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.




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