On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Gary Roach <gary719_li...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
> OK, I did the following:
> mkdir /tar
> chown backuppc:backuppc /tar a place to store the tar file
> cd /usr/share/backuppc/bin to get to the
> BackupPC_tarCreate script
> su backuppc logged in as backuppc
> then ran:
> $./BackupPC_tarCreate -n 169 -h localhost -s / > /tar/target.tar
>
> The script ran, printed out the help menu and created an empty target.tar
Note that the shell creates the file specified for output redirection
before starting the program.
> There were 2 comments about depreciated commands in the script but no
> errors.
You don't get the help message unless the command had an error. You
omitted the 'files/directories' that the help message should have
shown as part of the command. '.' will work for everything - or '/'
--
Les Mikesell
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