Re: Cron <backup@laurel> /usr/backup/runincbackup # Daily incremental (fwd)


Subject: Re: Cron /usr/backup/runincbackup # Daily incremental (fwd)
From: Artiste Extrordinaire! (artie@muq.org)
Date: Sun Aug 08 1999 - 17:43:47 CDT


Ah ok. Yeah that makes sense, I'm not quite sure how to force quotes
around all the files returned by 'find' so tar sees them correctly.
Curious that we don't have more files with spaces in them.
-Andy

On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Allucquere Rosanne Stone wrote:

> "Artiste Extrordinaire!" wrote:
>
> > We've been getting odd entries in the backup logs that look like a text
> > file catted out and turned into symbolic links. It's the only way I can
> > think of that would make entries like this.
> > -Andy
>
> Those are file names of a group of files I uploaded to ~sandy/fiction last week from a local Mac. They are
> in Mac format, i.e., all the filenames have spaces between words. That seems to be confusing the cron backup
> script, i.e., the first three entries in the log you forwarded to me refer to a file named "full page
> format". I deleted the offending directory. Hope that stops the problem. Please let me know if it doesn't.
>
> -Sandy
>
>



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