[nycbug-talk] ncftpput question

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Steve Rieger wrote:

> am trying to create a full backup of a few servers from command line via
> cronob, am using ncftpput here is the script and the error i get below,.
man ncftpput
You need ncftpput -c (specify that input is stdin).

> what am i doing wrong here.
> 
> 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> HOST=yoyoma
> 
> USER=fiddle
> PASS=flute
> HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
> DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S`
> FILENAME=$HOSTNAME-$DATE.tar.gz
> tar cf - / | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ncftpput -S .tmp -u $USER -p $PASS 
> -P22 canregie.hall.com   full $FILENAME
> Cannot open local file carnegie.hall.com-2004-11-16-11:52:02.tar.gz for 
> reading: No such file or directory
> 
> 
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