Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:00 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>> >>> >>>> I'd send STDOUT and STDERR to separate logs for brevity's sake. >>>> Something like... >>>> >>>> tar czvf $destfile $tobetarred > /tmp/tarlog.std 2> /tmp/tarlog.err >>>> >>>> >>> If you want to have it brief - why the "v"? >>> >>> >> Becuase then at least I might see what files were being processed when >> the tar stopped? >> > > Tar shouldn't have stopped regardless of complaints about files that > are unreadable or disappear. If you are sure it isn't completing > try running it with 'strace' and look at the system errors when > it dies. Sounds reasonable. Had to lookup up strace. So I would run: starce -o /tmp/strace.log tar -cpvzO / --exclude-from=/home/not-file 2>/tmp/tarlog.err | ssh user at ipaddrs "cat > backup.tgz" ?