On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Gary Roach <gary719_list1 AT verizon DOT net> 
wrote:
>>>
> OK, I did the following:
> mkdir /tar
> chown backuppc:backuppc /tar        a place to store the tar file
> cd /usr/share/backuppc/bin               to get to the
> BackupPC_tarCreate script
> su backuppc                                        logged in as backuppc
> then ran:
> $./BackupPC_tarCreate -n 169 -h localhost -s / > /tar/target.tar
>
> The script ran, printed out the help menu and created an empty target.tar

Note that the shell creates the file specified for output redirection
before starting the program.

> There were 2 comments about depreciated commands in the script but no
> errors.

You don't get the help message unless the command had an error.  You
omitted the 'files/directories'  that the help message should have
shown as part of the command.   '.' will work for everything - or '/'

-- 
  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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