[Box Backup] Re. Spaces in bbackupquery.

[Scott McNee]

You learn something new everyday.
Thankyou ben

Scott McNee
ITServices
 


-----Original Message-----
From: boxbackup-admin@fluffy.co.uk [mailto:boxbackup-admin@fluffy.co.uk] On
Behalf Of Ben Summers
Sent: Wednesday, 20 July 2005 6:43 PM
To: boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Box Backup] Re. Spaces in bbackupquery.



On 19 Jul 2005, at 07:03, Scott McNee wrote:

> Hi All I seem to remember something about this somewhere... Anyway 
> trying to list a Directory with a space like so :
>
> /usr/sbin/bbackupquery -q -c /etc/box-local/bbackupd.conf "list -IFd 
> fs0-BIZEBOX-BACKUPS-OFFSITE/PUBLIC/KALMA/N/ICP Results" quit
>
> bbackupquery says that the directory does not exist? But it does.

As with any command executed from the shell, you need to quote quotes  
with the quoted argument.

/usr/sbin/bbackupquery -q -c /etc/box-local/bbackupd.conf "list -IFd
\"fs0-BIZEBOX-BACKUPS-OFFSITE/PUBLIC/KALMA/N/ICP Results\"" quit

Should do the trick.

Ben




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