Backup Strategy Not Working (Solved Apparently)

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Sun Aug 2 10:17:10 UTC 2015


On Sat, 2015-08-01 at 20:43 +0100, Graham Watkins wrote:
> I must admit it never occurred to me that spaces might be an issue. I'd 
> thought that the "\" in "Expansion\ Drive" would take care of that.

It DID take care of it - once. Problem was, you needed it taken care of
twice - once when handing it to the shell from within cron, and again
when handing it to tar from within the shell.

Regards, K.

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