Backup Fails with Odd Error

  • mrwilder
  • 04/04/09
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Posted: Wed, 2010-03-10 15:25

My (SSH protocal based) backup runs nicely till it's time to transfer the data to the backup server.

Then it fails with: upload failed! theUsersName@theDomainName.com's password: scp: ambiguous target

The file I'm trying to save it to is: /home/something/homes/backup/ns1_backup_%A

and I have the "Do strftime-style time substitutions on file or directory name" box checked.

Does anyone know what might cause the error?

Thanks, Tony