Re: [PLUG] tar and tape problem

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:00:33PM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> well you could add a 'v' to your tar flags (eg: tar cvfz) and
> the last file mentioned should be where tar died.

No it won't. That's what "delayed" means, though whoever oomposed
that error message wasn't exactly a master of English grammar.

The point is that tar choked on something (> 2 GB file if not built
to support it--rebuild it, if so, device, named pipe, or some other
file it doesn't know how to deal with, so forth) earlier, but just a
single file (or several single files); not enough to abort the
backup.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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