Re: [BackupPC-users] incremental tar xfer errors

[Jeffrey J. K. <bac...@ko...>]

Simone Marzona wrote at about 22:38:42 +0100 on Wednesday, January 7, 2009:
 > Hi
 > 
 > I got a strange problem doing incrementals with tar over ssh using
 > --newer=$incrDate+. It seems an "escape problem" of part of the time
 > reference for the incremental. The date part of --newer is parsed
 > correctly but the hour part of --newer.. doesn't and is changed in
 > 00:00:00 and tar interprets 11:34:33 as a filename that doesn't exist.
 > 
 > extract from logfile
 > 
 > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -c blowfish -C -q -x -n -l backup $host $tarPath
 > -c -v -v -f - -C /root --totals --newer=2009-01-07 11:34:33 .
 > 

Well the problem (obviously) is that there is whitespace between the
date and time. Maybe try putting quotations around $incrDate+

 > incr backup started back to 2009-01-07 11:34:33 (backup #0) for
 > directory /root
 > Xfer PIDs are now 25928,25927
 > /bin/tar: Treating date `2009-01-07' as 2009-01-07 00:00:00 + 0
 > nanoseconds
 > /bin/tar: 11\:34\:33: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
 > 
 > The problem disappears if I use mtime and not incrDate+ (or rsync) in
 > the incremental options of tar.
 > 
 > What I'm wrong?
 > 
 > Thanks in advance.
 > 
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