[pmwiki-users] tar problem

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:44:17AM +0200, potax flan wrote:
> i was trying to back my files up, and for some reason the "tar -zcvf
> ~/wiki-backup-`date +%Y%m`.tar.gz  wiki/" command gives me a "?Invalid
> command." when i execute it via FTP. any tips?

The tar command above is intended to be run from a shell prompt;
FTP clients don't understand the full range of shell commands.

Pm