Now why does this now work? [tar zipping problem, easy]

[interactive]

Why doesn't this work?

tar -cmzvf "/home/httpd/vhosts/site.com/site_backups/site_backup-`date`.tar.gz" /home/httpd/vhosts/site.com/httpdocs


Error:

Removing leading `/' from member name


Then a couple lines down (after some files are listed):

tar (child): Cannot execute remote shell: No such file or directory
home/httpd/vhosts/site.com/httpdocs/beta/images/archives.gif
tar (child): /home/httpd/vhosts/site.com/site_backups/site_backup-Mon Jul 21 23\:04\:48 PDT 2003.tar.gz: Cannot open: Input/output error
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now



Any ideas?

[xerocity.com]

Did you check the partition size and make sure that there is enough room? Also how is your memory?

The only thing that worrys me about the output is the input/output error.

[interactive]

Checked it. There's more then enough room.

[xerocity.com]

Originally posted by interactive:

Checked it. There's more then enough room.

What version of tar are you using?

[interactive]

1.13.25-4.7.1


Knowing plesk it would probably kill it if I updated the version.

[wateringcan]

Can't say I know what the problem is. One suggestion though:

DATE=`date '+%Y%m%d'`; tar -czvf /home/httpd/vhosts/site.com/site_backups/site_backup-$DATE.tar.gz /home/httpd/vhosts/site.com/httpdocs

Using `date` isn't advised, as it'll create filenames with spacing in them. It's best to format the output of the date command. Secondly, what is the -m in your tar command for? Isn't that for extraction?

[no1v2]

It's because of the colons in the file name.

[Chicken]

This is an ugly file name, eh? site_backup-Mon Jul 21 23\:04\:48 PDT 2003.tar.gz

I usually just:
tar cvf nameoftarfileyouwant.tar *
gzip nameoftarfileyouwant.tar

[no1v2]

-z g(un)zips it for you. Interactive ou might want to try bzip2 (-I, formerly -j). It takes longer to compress than gzip but provides better compression. .bz2 is the standard bzip2 extention, so you'd name the archive blah.tar.bz2. For naming files using date either just use unixtime (date +%s) or a convention like yearmonthday (date +%Y%m%d or maybe date +%Y-%m-%d) if you don't need the time too. Play around with date and find something you like :)

[xerocity.com]

If you can, try to update tar. There was a problem with the 1.13 version of tar that can cause this (I am not sure of the exact release).

I did a search on google and one person mentioned that going back to 1.12 fixed the error. I do not know if this is really advisable, but they said it worked.

Good luck.