Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:24, Robert Nichols 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.
Isn't the / the target that you want to copy? Tar has always had an
oddball argument processing routine to support the ancient bundled
one letter options without any leading '-' but I think the last
version became slightly more normal by not looking for more options
after hitting the file/directory name(s) that are supposed to be
at the end.
Mea culpa! The way that line got word wrapped, I saw the "/" as
a "\" denoting line continuation. Yes, you're right. Sorry
about that.
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