-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-24 8:40 p.m., deloptes wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > >> Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it >> >> #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory >> /home/ken/mozilla. STARTDIR=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf >> /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ --wildcards >> -T docs/tarlists/kbrowsers.lst cd "$STARTDIR" >> >> it returns the following: >> > > this is not possible because in the script you tell tar to create > archive in /media/fde/backups/
Yes, that is the location where I want the archive kbrowsers.tgz to be put. >> ken@Turing:~$ tarkbrowsers tar (child): >> /media/ssda/backups/kbrowsers.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or >> directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: >> /media/ssda/backups/kbrowsers.tgz: Cannot write: Broken pipe tar: >> Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting >> now >> > > and here you are failing to write > /media/ssda/backups/kbrowsers.tgz /media/ssda/ .. does not exist, neither as a directory or in /etc/fstab >> It is trying to save the tarball to a different portable storage >> device, ssda, which had failed and consequently is no longer in >> /etc/fstab. How could such a thing happen? >> > > obviously it is another script or whatever But how? >> However, if I pull the line with the tar command out of the >> script and running it independently it does what it is told. If >> there is something wrong with the script I can't find it. >> >> I also tried the script with the second line reading >> STARTDIR="$PWD"; but that change made no difference, the result >> was the same. >> > > The question is where do you want to write the data - if on media > attached then create entry in /etc/fstab so that you can mount it > in consistent way, change the script and the problem will be gone. /media/fde is the mount point for the device to which will be written the archive. It is properly mounted, and I can write files to it and read those files. As I said in my original post I am able to write the archive successfully to /media/fde/backups/ by copying the tar command line to a console and read the contents of the tarball. > I have seen all kind of stupid and ugly admin scripts, where the > author himself does not know how or why it is or it is not working > at the end. > > regards Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQR9YFyM2lJAhDprmoOU2UnM6QmZNwUCXbJjwQAKCRCU2UnM6QmZ NzIJAJ9Ng8JazKDR52yEBcyEoatQBu7PQACcCT5xNctrkAiobqpPGG1Soj9lmCI= =fv+M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
