zip I/O error: Protocol error in bash script

reno_queen

so here's the script that i am trying to get it work: #!/bin/bash filePath="$1" fileName="$( basename "$filePath" )" backupDir="/my/backup/dir/${fileName}-backups/" dateTime=$( date "+%d.%m.%Y_%H:%M:%S" ) # Check if backup folder exists if not create them if [ ! -d "$backupDir" ]; then mkdir "$backupDir" fi # Create the Backup in a zip-file zip -r "${backupDir}${fileName}-${dateTime}.zip" "$filePath" This error appears: zip I/O error: Protocol...

Originally asked by TuKsn on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

It's probably because ZIP is dos/windows-centric. In Windows, : is disallowed in filenames since it's used as separator between drive letter and path ( C:\ ). Unless you really need zip, I recommend using tar with gzip or xz compression instead.

Full answer by geirha: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/444399 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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