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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to create a Tar of multiple Files in Unix and FTP the tar to Windows. Post 302228754 by marconi on Monday 25th of August 2008 10:50:19 AM
Old 08-25-2008
How to create a Tar of multiple Files in Unix and FTP the tar to Windows.
Hi,

On my Unix Server in my directory, I have 70 files distributed in the following directories (which have several other files too). These files include C Source Files, Shell Script Source Files, Binary Files, Object Files.

a) /usr/users/oracle/bin
b) /usr/users/oracle
c) /home/oracle/local/csource
d) /home/oracle/local/dat


Query 1) I need to create a Tar File with all the 70 files (which are currently
scattered in the above 4 directories), as mentioned above. Also,
after creating the tar file, I need to ftp this tar file from the Remote
Unix Server to my Windows Desktop.
I tried using 'tar -cvf <filename>' but I could not succeed.

Query 2) Also, if you could please let me know, how I could tar all the files
which are in all the above 4 directories and not specific scattered
files(which I actually want).

Request you to please let me know, how I can do all the above.

Thanks a lot in advance.

With Best Regards,
Marconi.
 

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smbtar

SMBTAR(1)																 SMBTAR(1)

NAME

       smbtar - shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares  directly to UNIX tape drives

SYNOPSIS

       smbtar  -s server [ -p password ]  [ -x services ]  [ -X ]  [ -d directory ]  [ -u user ]  [ -t tape ]  [ -t tape ]  [ -b blocksize ]  [ -N
       filename ]  [ -i ]  [ -r ]  [ -l loglevel ]  [ -v ]  filenames

DESCRIPTION

       This tool is part of the  Samba suite.

       smbtar is a very small shell script on top of smbclient(1) which dumps SMB shares directly to tape.

OPTIONS

       -s server
	      The SMB/CIFS server that the share resides upon.

       -x service
	      The share name on the server to connect to.  The default is "backup".

       -X     Exclude mode. Exclude filenames... from tar create or restore.

       -d directory
	      Change to initial directory before restoring / backing up files.

       -v     Verbose mode.

       -p password
	      The password to use to access a share.  Default: none

       -u user
	      The user id to connect as. Default: UNIX login name.

       -t tape
	      Tape device. May be regular file or tape device. Default: $TAPE environmental variable; if not set, a file called tar.out .

       -b blocksize
	      Blocking factor. Defaults to 20. See tar(1) for a fuller explanation.

       -N filename
	      Backup only files newer than filename. Could be used (for example) on a log file to implement incremental backups.

       -i     Incremental mode; tar files are only backed up if they have the archive bit set. The archive bit is reset after each file is read.

       -r     Restore. Files are restored to the share from the tar file.

       -l log level
	      Log (debug) level. Corresponds to the -d flag of smbclient(1) .

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       The $TAPE variable specifies the default tape device to write to. May be overridden with the -t option.

BUGS

       The smbtar script has different options from ordinary tar and tar called from smbclient.

CAVEATS

       Sites that are more careful about security may not like the way the script handles PC passwords. Backup and restore work on entire  shares,
       should work on file lists. smbtar works best with GNU tar and may not work well with other versions.

DIAGNOSTICS

       See the DIAGNOSTICS section for the smbclient(1)
	command.

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

       smbd(8) smbclient(1) smb.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       The  original  Samba  software  and  related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

       Ricky Poulten <URL:mailto:poultenr@logica.co.uk> wrote the tar extension and this man page. The smbtar script  was  heavily  rewritten  and
       improved  by  Martin  Kraemer  <URL:mailto:Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>.  Many thanks to everyone who suggested extensions, improvements, bug
       fixes, etc. The man page sources  were  converted  to  YODL  format  (another  excellent  piece	of  Open  Source  software,  available	at
       ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conver-
       sion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter.

								 19 November 2002							 SMBTAR(1)
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