Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!rfpfeifle
From: rfpfeifle@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ron Pfeifle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Backup utilities for ix-386
Keywords: backup ix-386
Message-ID: <11954@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 89 13:55:20 GMT
References: <185@softest.UUCP> <[253554b6:333.1]comp.unix.i386;1@vpnet.UUCP>
Reply-To: rfpfeifle@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ron Pfeifle)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <[253554b6:333.1]comp.unix.i386;1@vpnet.UUCP> lisbon@vpnet.UUCP (Gerry Swetsky) writes:
>> Does anyone know of a better utility for backup (onto tape) than
>> "backup" and "restore". I'm looking for something along the lines
>> of "dump".
>
>    Does "backup" even work?  I got a syntax error at line 258,
>    "done unexpected".
I got the same error, and although I don't claim to know if this really
helped, I found that line 258 (done) isn't paired with any begin loop.
I commented that line out, and it seems to work now.

Warning:  I'm not advocating this change--I'm just saying that it seemed
to fix the problem for ME. (BTW this is /usr/bin/backup, not the one
in the sysadm menu tree)

Ron