On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Chris Adamson
<chris.adamson AT mcri.edu DOT au> wrote:
> List,
>
> I implemented the tar script option for backing up my localhost as per:
>  http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html
>
> so the "if you are more cautious" option where you create a script that
> runs "tar -c $*"
>
> When an incremental is run I get the following warning message in the
> log
>
> Running: /usr/bin/sudo /root/tar_create -c -v -f - -C /etc --totals
> --ignore-failed-read --newer=2012-11-22 19:00:00 .
> incr backup started back to 2012-11-22 19:00:00 (backup #387) for directory 
> /etc
> Xfer PIDs are now 30071,30070
> /bin/tar: Option --after-date: Treating date `2012-11-22' as 2012-11-22 
> 00:00:00
> /bin/tar: 19\:00\:00: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
>
> This does not happen if I use the less cautious option of letting backuppc 
> run tar as root.

Your problem is that you are losing the quoting so the timestamp is
split at the whitespace and tar thinks it is supposed to back up a
file named 19:00:00.   I think your script should use $@ instead of
$*.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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