Command output redirection

[TonyGroves]

This is probably a very simple thing, but I'm new to Linux, and my shell-scripting skills are quite basic, so a little help would be appreciated.

I need a little script to completely back-up my Linux laptop to my W*****s server, so I wrote the following:
[tt]
#! /bin/sh
d=`date +'%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'`
sudo tar \
--exclude=/SAMBA \
--exclude=/var/spool \
-cvzf /SAMBA/tg/SERVER/backup/tonyslaptop/$d.tar.gz \
/bin /boot /etc /home /lib /opt /root /sbin /srv /usr /var \
1>~/backup.log \
2>~/backup.err
[/tt]
It seems to work fine, except that the 'verbose' output of directories being backed-up appears on the screen, not in the log file as intended. Can somebody tell me what I need to do?

Thanks a lot.

 

[TonyGroves]

Strange - it seems to be working now!

Thanks.

 

[stefanwagner]

Is there no problem to backup /home, and simultanously log into a file in home?

If you log to /tmp, and move the logfile after finishing?

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[thedaver]

I agree, you could end up with a loop or file contention mess. Don't log into your backup scope.

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[TonyGroves]

Thanks, I'll fix that.

It works OK though. The log file just gets skipped.