Shawn writes:
> I hope this is something simple -- I can't get my archive to run via cron
> (as user backuppc). Nor will it run manually in a terminal.
>
> My command is:
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split /usr/bin/par2
> emailpool -1 /bin/gzip .gz 70000000 /var/lib/backuppc/backuparchive 5 *
>
> and the output is always:
> Usage: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost tarCreatePath splitPath
> parPath host bkupNum \
> compPath fileExt splitSize outLoc parFile share
>
> I've checked the paths and spaces and everything appears correct. Running
> the archive via the web interface works fine. Copy/pasting the command used
> by the web interface from the log files onto a terminal line produces the
> same result - just the command summary. sudo -u backuppc does the same
> thing as does running it as a user or root. The operating system is ubuntu
> 6.06.
>
> -1 means last complete backup correct? (I've changed this number anyways
> and it doesn't seem to matter.) split, gzip, par2 are all in the folders as
> indicated and appear to be working perfectly as the web interface works
> great.
If you run the command manually you need to quote the * at the end, eg:
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost \
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split /usr/bin/par2 \
emailpool -1 /bin/gzip .gz 70000000 /var/lib/backuppc/backuparchive 5 "*"
Craig
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