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- Contributor: Unknown
- Date: 1994
- Status: Mostly Current - refer man page
-
- Subject: Smbtar
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-
- Intro
- -----
-
- sambatar is just a small extension to the smbclient program distributed with
- samba. A basic front end shell script, smbtar, is provided as an interface
- to the smbclient extensions.
-
- Extensions
- ----------
-
- This release adds the following extensions to smbclient,
-
- tar [c|x] filename
- creates or restores from a tar file. The tar file may be a tape
- or a unix tar file. tar's behaviour is modified with the newer and tarmode
- commands.
-
- tarmode [full|inc|reset|noreset]
- With no arguments, tarmode prints the current tar mode (by default full,
- noreset). In full mode, every file is backed up during a tar command.
- In incremental, only files with the dos archive bit set are backed up.
- The archive bit is reset if in reset mode, or left untouched if in noreset.
- In reset mode, the share has to be writable, which makes sambatar even
- less secure. An alternative might be to use tarmode inc noreset which
- would implement an "expanding incremental" backup (which some may prefer
- anyway).
-
- setmode <setmode string> filename
- This is a "freebie" - nothing really to do with sambatar. This
- is a crude attrib like command (only the other way around). Setmode string
- is a combination of +-rhsa. So for example -rh would reset the read only
- bit on filename.
-
- newer filename
- This is in fact part of the 1.9.13 samba distribution, but comes
- into its own with sambatar. This causes tar (or get, mget, etc) to
- only copy files newer than the specified file name. Could be used
- against the previous nights (or whatever) log file to implement incremental
- backups.
-