From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from spaceymail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5079C10A01 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:50:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from tdsportable (97-118-25-167.hlrn.qwest.net [97.118.25.167]) by spaceymail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C398059A for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:51:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <997FD392DD914C4985EC173F49BFC29E@tdsportable> From: "Tyler Littlefield" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: backup apparently not working Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:52:04 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:50:08 -0000 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