[pmwiki-users] tar problem

[Robin Sheat]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:44, 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?
This command will only work if you have shell access to the server, it won't 
work over FTP. To back up with FTP, you'll probably need to copy all the 
files, and then tar (or zip, or whatever) them on your local machine.

Robin.