[Gllug] Backup problems

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Sat Apr 29 12:35:50 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 00:19 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:48:31PM +0100, Adrian wrote:
> > I cannot get my backup script to work properly...
> > 
> > This is what it says now:
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > 
> > mt -f /dev/st0 retension
> > tar -czvf /dev/st0 / -X /etc/ex-bak.txt
> > mt -f /dev/st0 offline
> > 
> > 
> > While ex-bak.txt says:
> > 
> > /proc/*
> 
> Try 
> 
> 	/proc
> 
> instead. 
> 

Actually it was tar not liking the syntax of my command

 tar -czv -X /etc/ex-bak.txt -f /dev/st0 /

works well

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