On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:21:42AM +0200, Bert_De_Ridder AT peopleware DOT be 
wrote:
> I have a question regarding backing up smbshares; 
> As i understand it, smbclient should be used by Amanda to perform this 
> task. 
> 
> I also thought that (somewhere along the line) smbtar would get called.
> 
> The backup of the share works perfectly. (I can restore it as well) 
> however;
> my problem is that smbtar does NOT get called; am I missing something ? 

Yeah, a section of the man page.  From the man page of smbclient:

     -T tar options
          smbclient may be used to create tar(1) compatible back-
          ups  of  all the files on an SMB/CIFS share. The secon-
          dary tar flags that can be given to this option are :

smbtar is not needed.

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