On Jan 14, 2011 4:33 AM, "Adrian Levi" <adrian.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have the following bash script and it fails at line 14 and 15 > (7zparameters= and 7zfilename=) I have tried everything i can think of > to get it to work, the answer has to be simple but i can't figure it. > > This is going to be my new backup script, based on an earlier version > that is very similar in functionality except I wasn't using tar, in > that version. > > #!/bin/sh > # Variables: > # Determine backup level > incrementalfile="/srv/tar_incremental_file" > > if [ -f $incrementalfile ] > then > backuplevel=`date +%w` > else > backuplevel="0" > rm $incrementalfile > /dev/null 2>&1 > fi > > 7zparameters='a -si -mhe=on -ppassword -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 > -md=32m -ms=on -l' > 7zfilename='Daily backup - `date +%a" "%h" "%H%M"
Check your quotes. There might be other things but it looks like you're missing a tick after date. Also a decent IDE would make this pretty plain to you - I use vim. > "%d-%m-%Y`.$backuplevel.tar.7z' > backuppath="/srv/allsocool /etc" > backupslocation="/srv/backups" > > tarparameters="cf - --listed-incremental=$incrementalfile " > > > # cd to directory for output file > cd $backupslocation > > tar $tarparameters $backuppath | 7z '$7zparameters' '$7zfilename' > > # Finally perform an rsync backup home nightly. > rsync -avz /srv/allsocool/
