Re: question about creation of archives

2018-07-17 Thread Colin Percival
On 07/16/18 10:00, Albert Cardona wrote: > In invoking the command: > > $ /usr/bin/tarsnap -c --configfile ~/.tarsnaprc -f backup-`date > +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S` --totals --dry-run /home/albert > > ... I am greeted with: > > tarsnap: Warning: Archive contains no files > > The /home/albert directory is

question about creation of archives

2018-07-16 Thread Albert Cardona
Hi all In invoking the command: $ /usr/bin/tarsnap -c --configfile ~/.tarsnaprc -f backup-`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S` --totals --dry-run /home/albert ... I am greeted with: tarsnap: Warning: Archive contains no files The /home/albert directory is certainly not empty. The ~/.tarsnaprc contains a