On 12/09/06, Barry L. Kline <blkline at attglobal.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. 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 Will.