Great script

[wcmedic]

Greetings,

I am attempting to use your script ran into a small snag that I can solve. I have a backupscript that backs up two directories on my server and puts them in /backup/bbs with the date appended on the filename. I want to use your script to only take the most recent of each of the two and upload to an ftp server. Here is what I altered in your script;

FILE1=$ ls ~/backup/bbs/mystic* | sort -k1.5 -k1.1,1.2 -k1.3,1.4 | tail -n 1
(this does pull the most recent)
#Directory where thing to backup is located
DIR=$FILE1

this is the output I get running your script

/home/pi/backup/bbs/mystic-29-08-2021.tar.gz
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.
Tar Complete
local: pi_*_2021-09-04.tar.gz: No such file or directory
Remote Backup Complete
Local Backup Removed

So it did Identify the correct file, but I must have something wrong?

Any help appreciated I know you did this a long time ago.

[sasha2002]

@wcmedic

FILE1=$ ls ~/backup/bbs/mystic* | sort -k1.5 -k1.1,1.2 -k1.3,1.4 | tail -n 1
(this does pull the most recent)
#Directory where thing to backup is located
DIR=$FILE1

This is totally wrong!
DIR= is a directory WHAT you want to backup!
You will backup all DIR not particular files!