| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:40:08 -0500 |
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[Purposely breaking association with the Belkin OmniCube thread on behalf of those using threaded mail readers.] On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:25:33PM -0800, Marc Zucchelli wrote: > I was trying to backup about 16 gigs of info to a > tape, and close to the end, I get: > > Tar: Error exit delayed previous errors > > I've seen that before when just creating normal tar > files. How can I find the source of this problem so I > can fix it. I would like to automate tape backups > with a nightly cron job and not have to worry about > problems like this. Any suggestions? thanks! Typically one sees this error if tar spewed a warning about being unable to reliably backup a file open for writing when it passed over it. Depending on whose tar you're using and what options you gave it, you may well have the file backed up anyway. You'd do well to redirect verbose output of the command to a file and review that file to see what the previous errors were. If it is (as I've seen it be) that you're trying to back up a file that's being written to, the only valid advice is Don't Do That. Though almost everyone does it, you really shouldn't backup from a live file system (rather, it should be mounted read only). -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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