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From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: backup apparently not working
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:33:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <879ED343CB4F40F886B951480AB68CEF@tdsportable> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E267DD774061486AAD4161A6C93CFDFA@bouncy>

what do you mean is it set in the crontab? I just execute that script from 
crontab. it's the script that's not working.


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
email: tyler@tysdomain.com
web: tysdomain-com
Visit for quality software and web design.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: backup apparently not working


> Is HOME set correctly in the crontab?
>
> Regards, Kerry.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:52 AM
> Subject: backup apparently not working
>
>
>> Hello,
>> First. I've partially figured out the problem.
>> It's throwing a fit about removing leading slash.
>> second, I've got the following line in a script:
>> tar -czvf ~/backups/valiant/`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.tar.gz 
>> ~/valiant/moo/db.db
>> when I ran that from the command line, it worked. when I tried to run it 
>> from a script, it "cowardly refused to create an empty archive," and then 
>> decided to try to run every file in my directory, it looks like.
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler Littlefield
>> email: tyler@tysdomain.com
>> web: tysdomain-com
>> Visit for quality software and web design.
>> skype: st8amnd2005
>>
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