Re: Question about backuping multiply dirs

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 10/30/11 16:42, Tim Bishop wrote:
> What happens if you run your exact cron command on the command line?
> 
> tarsnap -c -f backup-`date +\%Y\%m\%d` /etc /var/www/vhosts
> 
> (for what it's worth, I don't think you need the back slashes there)

Correct, the back slashes are only needed in the crontab because % has a
special meaning in cron tabs.

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