[CCing Alex since it's his code we're talking about here...]
On 08/15/14 09:19, Bob wrote:
On 8/14/2014 4:55 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
On 08/14/14 14:55, Bob wrote:
I am running ACTS to do my backups and cleanup my archive. Everything was fine
for a month or so, now I get "
head: illegal line count -- -31" at the end of the tarsnap backup. As far as I
can tell, everything is still being backed up, but this message must mean
something. Can anyone help?
That would be a problem with the script you're using -- looks like it's in the
part of the script which deletes old daily backups. The "-n negative number"
option to the head utility is nonportable and presumably doesn't exist on your
operating system.
That makes sense. I am using freeBSD 9.2. The only thing is that daily backup
removal was going fine for a while. I am not an expert at this. Is there a fix
or a different way to attack backup management?
Probably you never had an error earlier because you had less than 31 daily
backups and so none of them needed to be deleted.
I think the easiest solution here is for 'head -n -X' to be replaced by
'sort -rn | tail +$(X+1)' -- Alex, do you want to make this change?