I believe smbclient should have no more problems with large files. smbtar is just a shell script that calls smbclient so you could modify it to do a cd first or just use the tar command in smbclient.
smbclient //server/share -Uuser%password -c "cd directory" -Tc backup.tar Colin Davis wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestion. I've been looking at SMBTAR, but I don't > see a way to specify specific directories to back up with it, only > entire shares. > For example, if I wanted to backup the "h:\stuff goes here" , by logging > into the "h$" Administrative share. > > Is there a way to do this with SMBTAR? > > I'd also love to know if there is a patch anywhere to fix smbfs, or what > I should do. Would using smbclient work better? > > I appreciate your help, > Colin > -- ====================================================================== Herb Lewis Silicon Graphics Networking Engineer 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy MS-510 Strategic Software Organization Mountain View, CA 94043-1351 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 650-933-2177 http://www.sgi.com Fax: 650-932-2177 PGP Key: 0x8408D65D ====================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
