Re: Backup scripts

[TBlittlefoot]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:32:05AM -0500, Joel J. Adamson wrote:
> TBlittlefoot <littlefoot8@earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:26:47PM -0500, Joel J. Adamson wrote:
> >> Howdy,
> >> 
> >> I'm using Slackware GNU/Linux 12.0 and would like to back up certain
> >> files in my home directory: these are just data and configuration files,
> >> not system files of any kind.  Reading the `tar' manual I came across
> >> the backup scripts, on my system in /usr/bin/backup.  I created a
> >> backup-specs file, and have gotten a bunch of errors that don't seem to
> >> jive with the documentation.  Here's my backup-specs file:
> >> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> 
> >> /home/joel/etc/backup Super-User > backup -f --time=now
> >> backup -f --time=now
> >> /dev/sdb1: Invalid argument
> >
> > Perhaps it needs to be mounted.
> 
> Perhaps...
> 
> >
> > grep mount /usr/sbin/backup didn't produce anything.
> 
> That's what I thought the first time.  The drive has been mounted the
> entire time.  I did discover that it was incorrectly partitioned
> (i.e. not partitioned).  But I solved that and I still get the same
> error.

Wouldn't you put the directory it was mounted on in place of the
device name?


Tom