Re: [flexbackup-help] good ole "ERROR: non-zero exit from"

[Jeff M. <in...@bi...>]

ok, i found it.

i went into flexbackup perl file and took out all the

-fstype stuff. and it worked.

i'm not using any weird file systems to i'm not concerned.

jeff.

Jeff MacDOnald wrote:
> Yeah, I tried something along those lines..
> 
> I took the "ssh" line and plunked it into a file then
> ran it..
> 
> ie: here is the content of the file
> 
> ssh -l backup bilbo.mydomain.ca cd "/usr/home" && sudo find -E . -depth 
> ! -fstype nfs ! -fsty
> pe smbfs ! -fstype bind ! -fstype proc ! -fstype devpts ! -fstype devfs 
> ! -fstype tmpfs ! -ty
> pe s -print0 | sudo tar --create --null --files-from=- 
> --ignore-failed-read --same-permission
> s --no-recursion --totals --label "level 0 bilbo.mydomain.ca:/usr/home 
> Thu Feb 12 10:39:02 20
> 04 tar+gzip from gollum.mydomain.ca" --verbose --sparse -b 20 --file - | 
> sudo gzip -4; x=(${P
> IPESTATUS[@]}); i=0; while [ $i -lt ${#x[@]} ]; do [ ${x[$i]} -eq 0 ] || 
> exit ${x[$i]}; i=$((
> $i+1)); done
> 
> Then i ran it "sh foo.sh" and got
> 
> -su-2.05b$ sh foo.sh
> foo.sh: 1: Syntax error: Bad substitution
> 
> Soooo I took out the first part [the ssh command] and just started the
> script with the "sudo tar" line. I put this modified version on bilbo
> and tried to run it and got the exact same error.
> 
> So i tink the error must be that chunk in the end, but i don't know 
> shell scripting very well so i'm kinda lost.
> 
> Jeff.
> 
> 
> 
> John Reynolds wrote:
> 
>> Jeff MacDOnald wrote:
>>
>>> i think i found it. tar on freebsd does not support --no-recursion yet
>>> it does support -norecurse
>>>
>>> are these intended to be the same thing ?
>>>
>>
>> What version of FreeBSD are you using? In FreeBSD 5.1-current (I'm too 
>> lazy to upgrade to 5.2 just yet) I see:
>>
>>   -n, --norecurse
>>       --no-recursion   avoid descending automatically in directories
>>
>> Seems to be the same thing.
>>
>> All I can offer as advice to debug is try logging into bilbo as 
>> "backup" and try running the find command itself. That's about the 
>> only thing you can do is try to isolate what is dying piece-meal.
>>
>> -Jr
>>
>>
> 
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