From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: backup apparently not working
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:32:02 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E267DD774061486AAD4161A6C93CFDFA@bouncy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <997FD392DD914C4985EC173F49BFC29E@tdsportable>
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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