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smbtar is a shell script for backing up SMB shares directly to UNIX tape drives and is similar to the tar command.

An example of its usage is below:

smbtar -v -s [server] -p [password] -x [share] -u [username] -t [tape/filename]

If a filename is provided after the -t switch the resulting file is a tar archive file.

See the man page for further information:

man smbtar