Re: [BackupPC-users] tar command problem

[Craig B. <cr...@at...>]

>         Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -n -l root linus $tarPath -c -v -f - -C / --
> totals --exclude=./tmp --exclude=./proc .
>         bash: line 1: -c: command not found
>         Tar exited with error 32512 () status
>         tarExtract: Unexpected end of tar archive (tot = 512, num = , posn = 
> )
>         tarExtract: Done: 1 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistCom
> p, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
>         
> Here's the $Conf{TarClientCmd} statement in linus.config.pl:
> 
>         $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -n -l root $host'
>                             . ' $tarPath -c -v -f -C $shareName+'
>                             . ' --totals';
>         
> I'm fairly sure I've got ssh set up correctly; bash's complaint that it
> couldn't find the command "-c" suggested to me that the $tarPath substitution
> wasn't working, thus causing bash to ignore it and construe the -c argument
> to tar as a program, so I double checked the $Conf{TarClientPath} statement
> in the config file for linus, but that, too, seems to be correct:
> 
> $Conf{TarClientPath} = '/bin/tar';

Yes, you're right: the $tarPath substitution isn't working.  I don't
know why, since the other substitutions happen correctly.

The only remote possibilities I can think of are:

  - that the whitespace before $tarPath in $Conf{TarClientCmd} somehow
    became a tab rather than a space, or

  - somewhere in the config file (either the main one or the pc-specific
    one) $Conf{TarClientPath} is set to undef.

As a workaround, you could just replace $tarPath in $Conf{TarClientCmd}
with /bin/tar.  Do the same for the tar restore command.

Craig