Thank you Craig!
Very clear and helpful.
Raf
Il 25/04/2020 04:06, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users ha scritto:
In the example you showed, the file contents have
digest 4b544ad7b8992fbbc0fafe34ae6ab5d5. You can pass that directly to
BackupPC_zcat if you want, which will uncompress the file t
Thanks Craig
That's clearly the problem, but I'm still mystified.
I have backuppc running on my home server; the storage is on a NAS NFS
mounted on the home server. Backing up other hosts on my network (both
full and incremental) over rsync works fine.
The home server backs up using tar. The com
Graham,
Your script is the problem. Using $* causes the shell the resplit
arguments at whitespace. To preserve the arguments you need to put that in
quotes:
exec /bin/tar -c "$*"
Craig
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 5:04 AM Graham Seaman wrote:
> Thanks Craig
>
> That's clearly the problem, but I'
Craig
Quoting $* gives me a new error:
/bin/tar: invalid option -- ' '
(I get exactly the same error whether I use $incrDate or $incrDate+)
That script is to avoid potential security problems from relaxing the
rules in sudoers, so I'd rather not get rid of it, but I'm a bit
surprised no-one
It would be helpful if you included the edited script in your reply. Did
you use double quotes, or two single quotes?
I'd recommend trying without the script, just the make sure it works
correctly. Then you can be sure it's an issue with how the script
handles/splits arguments.
Craig
On Sat, A
