smbtar is usually not a binary executable but a shell script. I am somewhat surpised that there isn't an option for compression - but the script could be easily modified (IMHO) to support your feature.
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 08:51, Brian Horncastle wrote: > 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 -- Mike Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. Suite 1002,1140-15th Ave SW. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2R 1K6. (403)804-5700.
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