Your NewBackupFilename contains ":" which is not a valid character in a
filename in Windows.
You could do something like this:
>>> NewBackupFilename = DirBackup + '\\' + '%s' %
str(datetime.today()).replace(':', '-') + '.tar.bz2'
>>> NewBackupFilename
'c:skpdc01Backups\\2005-01-21 12-26-21
Hello,
I'm using Python to automate admin tasks on my job. We use Windoze
2000 as desktop platform. When executing this daily backup scripts I
get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\UTILS\backup.py", line 8, in ?
TarFileBackup = tarfile.open(NewBackupFilename,
