Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 02:13:41 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: backup problems with tar script Message-ID: <20000926021341.A18819@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Here is a script i copied and modified from the gnu site.
I am only backing up /etc for testing reasons.
#!/bin/csh
set now = `date`
set then = `cat ~/.admin/date.home.dump`
tar -c -l -G -v\
-f /mnt/zip/backup.tar\
-N "$then"\
-V "Dump from $then to $now"\
/etc
echo $now > ~/.admin/date.home.dump
Here is the end of the output and the resulting error.
etc/uucp/port.sample
etc/uucp/sys1.sample
etc/uucp/sys2.sample
tar: Can't write to (null) : Bad address
Any ideas what is going wrong? I tried searching the tar man page for the
word 'null' in the error list, but had no luck. Apparently tar is choking
on the first file (non-directory) after all the directories in /etc.
What I want is an automated system that backs up all files modified or
created since the last backup. I would prefer the backup file name to be
generated automatically from the date, and for the script to determine the
cutoff date automatically as well.
jcm
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