Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
That argument list consists entirely of options and arguments to those options. If you are suggesting that the "-f ARCHIVE" option needs to be the last option, I would like to know where in the tar documentation you find that restriction. -- Bob Nichols Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
