Tarfile module error

[Beowulf]

Hello,

I'm using Python to automate admin tasks on my job. We use Windoze
2000 as desktop platform. When executing this daily backup scripts I
get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\UTILS\backu p.py", line 8, in ?
TarFileBackup = tarfile.open(Ne wBackupFilename , 'w:bz2')
File "C:\Python23\li b\tarfile.py", line 875, in open
return func(name, filemode, fileobj)
File "C:\Python23\li b\tarfile.py", line 980, in bz2open
raise ReadError, "not a bzip2 file"
tarfile.ReadErr or: not a bzip2 file
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Here's the code:
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import tarfile
from datetime import datetime

DirBackup = r'\\skpdc01\Bac kups'
DirOrig = r'C:\WUTemp'

NewBackupFilena me = DirBackup + '\\' + '%s' % (datetime.today ()) +
'.tar.bz2'
TarFileBackup = tarfile.open(Ne wBackupFilename , 'w:bz2')
TarFileBackup.a dd(DirOrig)
TarFileBackup.c lose()
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What am I doing wrong? From the error message I gues the library is
expecting the bzip file to exists, but I am explicitly open it whit
'w:bz2' Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Kartic]

Your NewBackupFilena me contains ":" which is not a valid character in a
filename in Windows.

You could do something like this:

NewBackupFilena me = DirBackup + '\\' + '%s' % str(datetime.to day()).replace( ':', '-') + '.tar.bz2' NewBackupFilena me 'c:\\\\skpdc01\ \\\Backups\\200 5-01-21 12-26-21.373000.tar.b z2' TarFileBackup = tarfile.open(Ne wBackupFilename , 'w:bz2')
# Works!

I changed your DirBackup to 'C:\skpdc01\Bac kups'

Thanks,
--Kartic