[plug] Remote backup of SMB mounted NTFS drive

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:53:42PM +0800, Earnshaw, Mike wrote:
> database to a spare drive, I have the smb connect mounted on my linux
> box, but I don't appear to get tar working.

Rather than mounting the share and using tar directly, have you looked at
the -T option to smbclient?  It can create a tar archive without having to
mount the filesystem on your local machine.

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Russell Steicke

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