TBlittlefoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:32:05AM -0500, Joel J. Adamson wrote: >> TBlittlefoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:26:47PM -0500, Joel J. Adamson wrote: >> >> Howdy, >> >> >> >> I'm using Slackware GNU/Linux 12.0 and would like to back up certain >> >> files in my home directory: these are just data and configuration files, >> >> not system files of any kind. Reading the `tar' manual I came across >> >> the backup scripts, on my system in /usr/bin/backup. I created a >> >> backup-specs file, and have gotten a bunch of errors that don't seem to >> >> jive with the documentation. Here's my backup-specs file: >> >> >> >> [...] >> >> >> >> >> /home/joel/etc/backup Super-User > backup -f --time=now >> >> backup -f --time=now >> >> /dev/sdb1: Invalid argument >> > >> > Perhaps it needs to be mounted. >> >> Perhaps... >> >> > >> > grep mount /usr/sbin/backup didn't produce anything. >> >> That's what I thought the first time. The drive has been mounted the >> entire time. I did discover that it was incorrectly partitioned >> (i.e. not partitioned). But I solved that and I still get the same >> error. > > Wouldn't you put the directory it was mounted on in place of the > device name?
Yeah, except that I did that and it still didn't work ;) It turns out that /usr/bin/backup is supplied with a host of variables from backup.sh, so I am examining both of them. The "invalid argument" message arises from the init_backup function in /usr/libexec/backup.sh on line 178. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109
