Barry L. Kline 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. thought so. > Use the verbose option with tar, then scan down > through the log to find out what happened. Used verbose mode. That is why everything escrowed of the screen. > 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. > Never got to the end of execution. Had lots of files still to go.