BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?

2008-08-19 01:52:08
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?
From: Craig Barratt <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
To: "Ward... James Ward" <jeward AT torzo DOT com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:51:40 -0700
James writes:

> I'm trying to back up some Arm processor console servers which only
> have busybox tar available.  Busybox tar does not support --totals
> and I THINK this is why the backups are failing.  I tried writing a
> wrapper script that spits out a bogus --totals line, but so far, no
> luck.  Any ideas?

Yes, most likely that is it.  Does the script write the totals
output to stdout or stderr?

You can also modify the code to not expect the totals line.

Craig

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