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fixit7
Asked: 2022-12-02 20:33:04 +0800 CST

No such file or directory - file is present

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enter code hereI do not understand why I am getting the "No such file..." error.

fstab is in home/andy/Downloads/

Here is what is relevant in my backup script.

# Backup fstab
cat /etc/fstab > home/andy/Downloads/fstab
tar -cvf fstab.tar home/andy/Downloads/fstab
rsync --progress -r -u fstab.tar $Backup_Directory
rsync --progress -r -u fstab.tar $Local_Backup_Dir

And the output.

Thunar_Settings.tar
10,240 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1) sending incremental file list
-rw-rw-r--         10,240 2022/12/01 22:27:27 Thunar_Settings.tar
/home/andy/bin/Backup_20_04.sh: line 79: home/andy/Downloads/fstab: No such file or directory
tar: home/andy/Downloads/fstab: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I added the / to the appropriate places.

tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /home/andy/Downloads/fstab sending incremental file list fstab.tar

It creates the tar file and sends it to the 2 locations.

bash

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Your script uses the absolute path home/andy... but this is not a valid path.

    Absolute paths must start with a /

    So if your username is andy then the absolute path to your user's home folder would be /home/andy/...

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