Re: backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly

[Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>]

Benjamin Schmidt <b.schmidt@t-p.com> writes:

> But maybe you should not use this (in my opinion) unusual command "find
> / -print ...". Instead use tar, like:
> 
> tar -zcvf /media/mirror/`date +%F`.tar.gz -C / --exclude=/media/*
> --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/mnt/*

Benjamin, thanks for the suggestion, but I had a problem with the
script:

        Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

I don't understand this error. 

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       Haines Brown, KB1GRM