Hi all, I've been doing some stuff with Samba backing up Win2k boxes. I was using "smbclient" in combo with "tar", but found this posed some issues with doing incremental backups. I recently discovered "smbtar", which looks like it is doing almost exactly what I need.
With normal Tar I could compress on the fly (using tar -czvf .......). Smbtar does not appear to have this same functionality. Right now I am doing the following: smbtar -v -s '192.168.12.70' -u brian -p somepassword -x ashare -t /backup/Comp1/Comp1-ashare.tar -i | gzip > /backup/Comp1/Comp1-ashare.tgz rm -f /backup/Comp1/Comp1-ashare.tar The problem with doing this is that the tar file is huge before being zipped. It would be nice to be able to gzip it on the fly as I was doing before with normal Tar. Does anyone happen to know of any work around to accomplish this? Thanks for any tips... :-) Regards, Brian H. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
