Can't backup /

[assistcontrol]

This may be a niche problem, and it's entirely likely that I'm misusing tarsnap, but I have carefully set nodump flags throughout my filesystem, and run tarsnap --nodump -c /.

Setting backuptargets="/" works, but leads to strange-looking archive names. ACTS essentially unsets $nicedirname, leading to a dangling hyphen (host-type-date-). Setting $backuptargets to . produces odd names too (host-type-date-.). More ideal would be to just leave $nicedirname off entirely in that case (host-type-date).

Consider then:

if [ "$dir" = "/" ]; then
    nicedirname=""
else
    nicedirname=$(echo "-$dir" | tr -d '/')

and s/-$nicedirname/$nicedirname/.

[alexjurkiewicz]

Hey, thanks for these two reports. Bad news for getting them fixed though. I don't use Tarsnap (and therefore acts) any more, so I'm not planning to make any further changes to this project.

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[assistcontrol]

Fair enough! I'll fork it and make the changes, and take a whack at a few of the other reported issues

Thank you for all the time and work you put into ACTS!