[Samba] Updated from 2.2.8a to 3.0b3 gives smbtar newer failure

[Mark Cooke]

Hi all,

Situation:

We use smbtar for backups, incrementals done using -N <last date file>,
and this has worked well with samba 2.2.x

After upgrading to 3.0b3, using the -N (newer) option to smbtar causes a
bad interaction with smbclient.

Eg,:

# smbtar -s PC -x Share -u User -p Pwd -d / -t - -N last-backup -v

gives (if you print out the eval at the end of smbtar script):

eval /usr/bin/smbclient '\\PC\Share' 'Pwd' -U 'User' -E -N -d 2 -D '/'
-c 'tarmode full' -TcN last-backup - ${1+"$@"}

giving:

[backup at pc1 CADPC6]$ cat Team.tar.log
Error setting newer-than time
Usage: [-?|--help] [--usage] [-R|--name-resolve NAME-RESOLVE-ORDER]
        [-M|--message HOST] [-I|--ip-address IP] [-E|--stderr]
[-L|--list HOST]
        [-t|--terminal CODE] [-m|--max-protocol LEVEL] [-T|--tar
<c|x>IXFqgbNan]
        [-D|--directory DIR] [-c|--command STRING] [-b|--send-buffer
BYTES]
        [-p|--port PORT] [-d|--debuglevel DEBUGLEVEL]
        [-s|--configfile CONFIGFILE] [-l|--log-basename LOGFILEBASE]
        [-V|--version] [-O|--socket-options SOCKETOPTIONS]
        [-n|--netbiosname NETBIOSNAME] [-W|--workgroup WORKGROUP]
        [-i|--scope SCOPE] [-U|--user USERNAME] [-N|--no-pass]
[-k|--kerberos]
        [-A|--authentication-file FILE] service <password>


Removing the -TcN <file> and replacing it with -Tc fixed this gotcha.

Cheers,

Mark

-- 
Mark Cooke <mpc at star.sr.bham.ac.uk>