[Samba] Samba / rsync / archival storage question

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 04:58:46PM -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Let me start by saying that this may not be, strictly speaking, a Samba
> question... but it very nearly is so I'm hoping you can offer some help.
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> I have a couple of Solaris 10 machines with the Oracle-supplied Samba on
> them. I'm looking to copy logs from BIND to an archival storage
> location. Solaris 10 does not support SMBFS so far as I know, so I
> cannot do a mount (I could use Sharity and am considering it).
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> Do you have any advice about how I could use smbclient or something like
> that? Preferable would be able to somehow use rsync to the SMB location,
> but I don't think I'm going to be able to do that with smbclient.

You can use smbclient in the same way as an ftp-like client.