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

SYNOPSIS
    smbtar -s server [ -p password ]  [ -x services ] [ -X ] [ -d direc-
    tory ]  [ -u user ] [ -t tape ] [ -t tape ] [ -b blocksize ] [ -N
    filename ] [ -i ] [ -r ] [ -l loglevel ] [ -v ] filenames

DESCRIPTION
    This tool is part of the  Samba 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.

    -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 expla-
    nation.

    -N filename
    Backup only files newer than filename. Could be used (for exam-
    ple) 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 tar
    called from smbclient.

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 2.2 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 <URL:mailto:poultenr@logica.co.uk> wrote the tar exten-
    sion and this man page. The smbtar script was heavily rewritten and
    improved by Martin Kraemer <URL:mailto:Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>. Many
    thanks to everyone who suggested extensions, improvements, bug fixes,
    etc. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excel-
    lent piece  of Open Source  software,  available  at
    ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL: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.