Using Samba, Second Edition

Name

smbtar

Synopsis

The smbtar program is a shell-script wrapper around smbclient for doing tar-format archiving operations. It is functionally very similar to the Unix tar program.

Command synopsis

smbtar [options]

Options

-a

Resets (clears) the archive attribute on files after they are backed up. The default is to leave the archive attribute unchanged.

-b blocksize

Sets block size, in units of 512 bytes, for reading or writing the archive file. Defaults to 20, which results in a block size of 10240 bytes.

-d directory

Changes the working directory on the remote system to directory before starting the restore or backup operation.

-i

Specifies incremental mode; files are backed up only if they have the DOS archive attribute set. The archive attribute is reset (cleared) after each file is read.

-l log_level

Sets the logging level. This corresponds to the -d option of smbclient and other Samba programs.

-N filename

Backs up only files newer than filename. For incremental backups.

-p password

Specifies the password to use to access a share. An alternative to using the username % password format with the -u option.

-r

Restores files to the share from the tar file.

-s server

Specifies the SMB server. See also the -x option.

-t filename

Specifies the file or Unix device to use as the archiving medium. The default is tar.out or the value of the TAPE environment variable, if it has been set.

-u username

Specifies the user account to use when connecting to the share. You can specify the password ...