[CentOS] Another Tar stopper
Barry L. Kline
blkline at attglobal.net
Tue Sep 12 14:21:33 UTC 2006
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Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> So I switched over to init 3 and ran the tar process from the text session.
>
> Still got this error.
>
> How do I figure out what is wrong and how do I find any similar
> show-stoppers?
>
That error is frequently caused by a lock or with the file changing
while being backed up. Use the verbose option with tar, then scan down
through the log to find out what happened. If you have a non-fatal
error early on in the execution of tar you'll receive notice of it at
the end of execution.
Barry
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