samba - Jan 2002 - (not so) simple tar

Hi all,

I've got a simple backup problem that I'm struggling with and could do
with
somone providing me with a light bulb for over my head.

I have a number of Win9X boxes with Office installed and I need to back them 
up nightly.  However, I only want to back up the "My Documents" and
the
/windows/desktop/.

can anyone tel me how to specify the "My Documents" on the tar line,
or on
the command line for smbtar.  This is the sort of thing I'm trying, but it 
insists on splitting My and Documents.

tar cI lsalesg.tar "My Documents" "windows/desktop"
tar cI lsalesg.tar My\ Documents/* "windows/desktop/*"
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From: 	Gary Stainburn[SMTP:gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk]
Sent: 	Sunday, 13. January 2002 13:16

Hi, Gary.

I'm just not certain, whether this one will help you, but for me
(SuSE 6.1, Samba 2.0.3, NT4SP6a) this works fine:

smbtar -s <servername> -x I$ -u Administrator -d "\winnt\profiles
\andre.000\Eigene Dateien" -p <password>

As you might have already gotten from smbtar's output, "-x"
specifies
the share to connect to. "I$" is the administrative standard-share
for drive I which, in my case, is my NT-%SYSTEMROOT%.
I dunno about the existence of this kind of shares on 9Xs, since
I always avoided those to my best.

And the "Eigene Dateien" equals your "My Documents". ;-)
> I've got a simple backup problem that I'm struggling with and could
> do with somone providing me with a light bulb for over my head.
I just don't know, how it might work with a win-share mounted
to a linux-FS, but tar shouldn't be so much different.

OBTW: Have you tried to chdir to the parent of "My Documents",
type "cd My" and then just press <tab> to call the command
completion on the linuxbox?
This might yield some hints on how to escape this correctly.

Saving the Desktop in a restoreable way might be just a little bit
more challenging, if it comes to saving the user's preferences,
the iconpositions aso. (At least, it is under NT, since the files
are locked, when the user is logged in.)
You might want to have a look at the ressource-kit's
"regsave" (IIRC) - a commandline based registry2file-tool which
enables you to save complete reghives or just a few branches
(HKCurrentUser, I assume) to an ASCII-File.

HTH.

Regards,
Andr?