On Sunday 21 January 2007 18:41, John Meyer wrote: > Here is what I am trying: > > cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures > gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar >
I'm no expert on tar but what you are trying never looked right to me. Just where is this Pictures? a directory off your home directory?? I would think Pictures/* would be the thing to use.. > And here's the error: > tar: Pictures: Cannot open: Is a directory > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > I guess the other will work just as well, but it still seems a waste of > processor time. > > Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 14:43 -0700, John Meyer wrote: > >> James Knott wrote: > >>> Try it without using compressed files. Some tar functions don't work > >>> with compression. You can always compress and uncompress separately > >>> from adding files. > >> > >> Okay, here's what I finally came up with > >> > >> cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures > >> gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar > >> > >> Seems to work, but I can't get the incremental backup feature. Any > >> suggestions? > > > > tar tzf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures.gz should show all of the > > versions of the files in the original backup. The "u" option will not > > add additional files that do not exist in the original tar file. > > > > I have not used the "G" option to tar for incremental backups so I > > cannot offer help for that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
