Dear Managers,
At least tentatively it appears that the problem of smbtar not
descending into folders may be a real bug in samba (or at least the
2.0.0beta 1 version). Richard Sharpe, the maintainer, indicated that
there were reports of such a bug in beta versions of samba2.0.0. He
will look at the problem (next week at the earliest).
Apparently the password must be made available in some
fashion; I guess I'll have to make the script for-root's-eyes-only
(which will work for me).
Thanks to the two respondents:
Richard Sharpe <sharpe_at_ns.aus.com>
Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo_at_albourne.com>
The original post:
Dear Managers,
Due to some changes in our local setup, I now have to back my PC
up to the TLZ06 tape drive on my DEC 3000/600. I'm using Samba v2.0.0
beta 1. As a test I'm backing up my C: drive (on a Win NT v4.0
machine). I'm using the following script (with hhhh replacing the PC
hostname and pppp replacing the password for obvious reasons):
#!/usr/bin/ksh
set -vx
mt rewind
if ! echo $PATH | grep samba
then
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/samba/bin
fi
smbtar -v -s hhhh -p pppp -X -x 'C$' -l 2 -u root -t /dev/nrmt0h pagefile.sys
set -
I need to exclude c:\pagefile.sys (NT doesn't like access to this
file, which seems reasonable to me). My administrative account on NT
is called root.
Two questions:
i) smbtar just backs up the top level directory and quits (I've
verified that these files are indeed written to my tape). How do I
get it to descend into my folders?
ii) Is there any way of getting the password out of the script? This
is clearly a security abomination, but eventually this script will
have to run without human supervision.
Larry
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Received on Sat Dec 12 1998 - 00:32:10 NZDT