Brien writes:

> How can I get this to work? I am storing the data inside lasttime.txt 
> (don't ask why) :-)
> 
> $Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=`cat lasttime.txt` $fileList+';
> 
> the shell command within ` ` does not get executed, so of course this 
> doesn't work at all.  Any ideas?

BackupPC doesn't use a shell for executing these commands,
so shell substitutions like `...` don't work.

You can set $Conf{TarClientCmd} to execute a shell script that
can do any argument processing you want.

Craig

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