Hello,

I try to set up a backup with a smb server at work.

The IT departement wont allow any sort of mounting and the only connection, I was able to set up, is via kfmclient copy.

This solution does work for single files in combination with a bash script and crontab.

As the backups are supposed to be used on whole folder structures, new folders need to be created on the remote smb share.

I can do this by hand, using konqueror but I was not able to do it on the shell.

Zipping the complete folder will take too long (several GB) and smb is the only connection to the server.

I hope someone has any ideas.

Greetings
Johannes

I solved the problem about creating folders.

It was rather simple, as I will now copy the whole folder and not create it.

This is what I built:

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find /homes/XXXXX/YYYYY/Desktop/Verschiebetest/ -mindepth 1 -type d -mtime -1 -exec kfmclient copy '{}' 'smb://ZZZZZZZZ/YYYYXXXX/XXXZZZ/YYXXXX/ZZZZ/YYYYYYY{}/..' \;


When I populate the share for the first time, everything is working very smooth. But the second time, konqueror always asks me if I really want to overwrite the files/folders. How can I tell kfmclient to alway accept overwriting old files?

Try something like this:

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kfmclient copy --noninteractive --overwrite file:///home/ben/Media/ file:///home/ben/test/

I only tested this on my KDE Trunk system however - and only with local files - it did copy the contents of the Media/ folder recursively however.

The --noninteractive option does work, but --overwrite does not.

One step closer to my goal though

Any further ideas?

edit:

Is it possible to change a konqueror config file to make "overwrite all" the standard behaviour?

Unfortunately, a quick study of the source code of both the KDE 4 and KDE 3 versions indicates that if it doesn't overwrite by default as far as I can tell. Therefore Konqueror's settings are not likely to have an impact on it.

oh, those are bad news.

What I tried next was using the kfmclient move command like this:

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kfmclient move 'smb:/XXXXX/xxxx/yyyyy/folder' trash:/


It does not work. I guess this is due to the smb protocol, because it does work for local files. I am not that much into file deleting on network drives. Any idea about solving this would be very much appreciated.

Have you tried the following?

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kfmclient remove 'smb://server/share/path/to/folder/

kfmclient remove sadly doesnt work.

My solution so far:

I move the files to a local folder and delete them there

Unfortunate. The output of "kfmclient --commands" should list all operations it supports.