Re: Taper

[Gabor Gludovatz <ggabor@sopron.hu>]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Gabor Gludovatz wrote:

> I'd like to set up an auto-backup from cron. I run taper with the
> following command line, but it always gives me its help without any error
> message.
> 
> taper --append-on --erase-tape-off --unattended-id -1 -g `date` -t "Aryo
> ($(LANG=de_DE date "+%A"))" -U @default
> 
> What's wrong with it? And why does taper give no errors if something's
> wrong?

missing quotation marks...

taper --append-on --erase-tape-off --unattended-id -1 -g "$(date)" -t
"Aryo ($(LANG=de_DE date "+%A"))" -U @default

it works this way.

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 Gabor Gludovatz <ggabor@sopron.hu> http://www.sopron.hu/~ggabor/