[nycbug-talk] ncftpput question

[George Georgalis]

dunno, but I'd try the first method with no : in the filename
could be confusing ncftp

// George


On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:15:48PM -0500, Steve Rieger wrote:
>ok so lets say that i do  a -c how would i define the filename to be 
>$FILENAME, i cant do it with <stdin
>
>
>On Nov 16, 2004, at 11:54 AM, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Steve Rieger wrote:
>>
>>>am trying to create a full backup of a few servers from command line 
>>>via
>>>cronob, am using ncftpput here is the script and the error i get 
>>>below,.
>>man ncftpput
>>You need ncftpput -c (specify that input is stdin).
>>
>>>what am i doing wrong here.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>#!/bin/bash
>>>HOST=yoyoma
>>>
>>>USER=fiddle
>>>PASS=flute
>>>HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
>>>DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S`
>>>FILENAME=$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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