On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:24:07AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > Benjamin Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But maybe you should not use this (in my opinion) unusual command "find > > / -print ...". Instead use tar, like: > > > > tar -zcvf /media/mirror/`date +%F`.tar.gz -C / --exclude=/media/* > > --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/mnt/* > > Benjamin, thanks for the suggestion, but I had a problem with the > script: > > Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive > > I don't understand this error.
It means that when tar followed all the instructions you gave it, there was nothing left to put in the archive, so it sanely refuses to create the archive. I looks like you're missing the final path on that line. man tar A
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