Hello, First. I've partially figured out the problem. It's throwing a fit about removing leading slash. second, I've got the following line in a script: tar -czvf ~/backups/valiant/`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.tar.gz ~/valiant/moo/db.db when I ran that from the command line, it worked. when I tried to run it from a script, it "cowardly refused to create an empty archive," and then decided to try to run every file in my directory, it looks like. Ideas? Thanks, Tyler Littlefield email: tyler at tysdomain.com web: tysdomain-com Visit for quality software and web design. skype: st8amnd2005
