On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 02:01, Joey wrote: > I can't figure out what is happening to my backups, apparently something in > tar has changed, but I can't find anything in the docs. > > > LOG=${SERVER}'-backup.log' > nice -n 14 tar -czf ${BACKUP_LOC}/D-Backup-${DATE}.tar.gz / > --exclude-from ${EXCLUDE} -g ${CONFIG_LOC}/${LOG} Try putting the options before the target like the docs say. I think it was an accident that this ever worked. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx