Backup Strategy Not Working
Graham Watkins
shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com
Sat Aug 1 18:49:23 UTC 2015
On 01/08/15 12:34, Robert Heller wrote:
>
> This *strongly* suggests that there is a 'quoting hell' issue going on.
> Because of the way cron works, you might need to quote the spaces *twice*.
> (This is similar to what happens when you use spaces in file names and then
> use scp: you have to quote the spaces for the source shell and the remote
> shell.)
>
> The easy solution is to NOT USE SPACES IN FILE NAMES. If that is not possible
> for some reason, you can create a script file (whose name does not contain
> spaces!) and put your command there (spaces, warts, quoting, etc.).
>
I have taken your advice and renamed Expansion Drive to Expansion_Drive.
I've brought the time and date of the task forward (14 minutes and
counting down) and will see what happens.
I will of course, let you all know what happens.
Thanks for all the input.
Cheers,
Graham
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