I need to zip the output of smbtar, but it seems to me that the tar extensions
of smbclient don't support any zip option; if I'm wrong please tell me
and stop further reading :)
I'm trying to pipe the output of smbclient/smbtar to gzip.
Basically something like:
smbclient '\server\share' -E -N -Tc - | gzip > test.tar.gz
However I have a problem with smbclient tarring to standard output:
doing
smbclient '\server\share' -E -N -Tc test.tar
and then
tar tvf test.tar ---> all is ok
doing
smbclient '\server\share' -E -N -Tc - > test.tar
and then
tar tvf test.tar -----> shows something like:
.....
filename
filename
:tar: Skipping to next file header <<<--------- problem
flename
filename
..........
I can untar this file ok with tar on the samba server, but smbclient fails to
untar this file to a share, because it stops just when it reaches that point
saying:
...........
filename
filename
............
checksums don't match 0 27745
abandoning restore, -1 from readtarheader
So that I can't pass the output of smbclient to gzip because it is not
perfectly ok.
I tried with different "servers" (win95 and win98) and different
shares.
What's the reason?
=======================Another question (I don't know much about stdin and
stout redirection....):
With tar I can use the -z option to tar&zip, however, I can even do:
tar cvf - mydir| gzip > test.tar.gz
and see all the files that are being tarred and gzipped.
But
smbclient '\\server\share' -N -E -Tc - |gzip > test.tar.gz
doesn't show the files scrolling on the screen, why?
(With decompression:
gzip -dc test.tar.gz|smbclient '\\server\share' -N -E -Tc -
the file are shown on the screen instead).
Thanks.
Giulio.
