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From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: incremental tar backup
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Here is a script i am trying for backups

Now, i don't have my zip drive connected at the moment, but i believe the
error i get is

tar:  cannot write to (null)
I *did* have the zip drive mounted on /mnt

This happens after all the subdirectories are written, and tar is supposed
to be tarring the actual files in home/jcm.  What have i done wrong or what
option have i omitted?

#!/bin/csh
set now = `date`
set then = `cat ~/.admin/date.home.dump`
tar -c -l -G -v\
-f /mnt/bak.tar\
-N "$then"\
-V "Dump from $then to $now"\
    /home/jcm\
    /etc\
    /usr/local/sbin
echo $now > ~/.admin/date.home.dump


jcm
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