Re: [cobalt-users] ftpbackup

["Mike Fritsch" <mfritsch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your help, the users quota on the storage server was indeed full.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H.P. Stroebel" <hpstr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] ftpbackup


> Mike Fritsch schrieb:
> 
> > /bin/tar cfp - /home/spool | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h
> > 255.255.255.0 -u user name -p password -b home-spool.tar.gz
> > /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
> > Broken pipe
> 
> the pipe is the "|" symbol in your command line; it "redirects" gzip`s
> output to ftpbackup`s input. if ftpbackup fails for some reason,
> ftpbackup refuses to accept input from gzip; so to gzip the pipe seems
> to be broken (it does not work), and it complains about that.
> 
> check the error code ftpbackup is returning (you DID read the
> instructions, did you ?) to see what happens. maybe the space on your
> backup server 255.255.255.0 is full ?
> 
> you can manually ftp to your backup server (read "man ftp" before) and
> try to transfer a file to see what is happening if you`re not
> experienced with checking returned error codes.
> 
> -- 
> 
> H. P.  Stroebel, Germany
> 
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> 
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