Re: [PLUG] tar and tape problem

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

I've gotten the same error when certain files or directories where not 
accessible due to filesystem permissions, or lack of user rights. 
Changing the permissions or to a higher level user account corrects the 
problem.

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!
>  

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