backup apparently not working

[Kerry Hoath]

Is HOME set correctly in the crontab?

Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:52 AM
Subject: backup apparently not working


> Hello,
> First. I've partially figured out the problem.
> It's throwing a fit about removing leading slash.
> second, I've got the following line in a script:
> tar -czvf ~/backups/valiant/`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.tar.gz 
> ~/valiant/moo/db.db
> when I ran that from the command line, it worked. when I tried to run it 
> from a script, it "cowardly refused to create an empty archive," and then 
> decided to try to run every file in my directory, it looks like.
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
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