Tar not working under FC4 as it does with FC3

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 13:02:38 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 02:01, Joey wrote:
> I can't figure out what is happening to my backups, apparently something in
> tar has changed, but I can't find anything in the docs.
>  
>  
> LOG=${SERVER}'-backup.log'
>         nice -n 14 tar -czf ${BACKUP_LOC}/D-Backup-${DATE}.tar.gz /
> --exclude-from ${EXCLUDE} -g ${CONFIG_LOC}/${LOG}

Try putting the options before the target like the docs say.  I
think it was an accident that this ever worked.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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