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Topic: error running fieltool.sh, Broken pipe error

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mikshaw

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Posted: Feb. 18 2005,15:23

it looks like your sda1 is being tried as the source rather than the destination, and trying /cdrom as the destination.

Perhaps you need another argument?
(filetool.sh backup source destination)

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sunburnt

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Posted: Feb. 18 2005,22:39

You`ll have to forgive my ignorance mikshaw but the source is the contense of filetool.lst, how do I use that? How about:

filetool.sh backup "cat filetool" /mnt/sda1

mikshaw

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Posted: Feb. 18 2005,23:36

hmm...that sounds unnecessarily redundant, so it's probably incorrect. I think I was wrong anyway.

All I know is that the output is saying "Backing up files to /cdrom"....i was thinking at first that it was trying to write to the wrong device. However, after a little exploring it seems that /cdrom is the mountpoint for the KNOPPIX and boot files, and whatever files are included with them.....so i guess that would be the mountpoint for your usb device?
perhaps the device is mounted read-only, or maybe you need to remount the device on /mnt/sda1 (one device, two mountpoints). That sounds weird, but it may be the only way to make it writeable.

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sunburnt

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Posted: Feb. 19 2005,00:02

I also noticed /cdrom IS /mnt/sda1, odd but if it ALWAYS reflects the
device DSL is on, it could be backup dev. for writable drives.
I mount and write files to sda1 manually in DSL, so it`s writable as su.
I know very little about writing script, maybe something like:

#!/bin/bash
# Script for Backup of DSL settings

echo -n "${BLUE}Backing up files to: /cdrom ${NORMAL}"
sudo tar -C / -T /mnt/ramdisk/home/dsl/filetool.lst --exclude=Cache -czf /cdrom/backup.tar.gz
echo "${BLUE}Done.${NORMAL}"
exit 0

I took this code from Robert Shingledecker`s code & altered it.
I`m not sure how much of filetool.sh is required to be reliable.
The source & destination are hard coded, so no arguments.
I think the very first line`s needed for script to function, duh?
If ANYONE has any thoughts, suggestions, etc., PLEASE feel free!!!