On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:35 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > tar -cpvzO / --exclude-from=/home/not-file 2>/tmp/tarlog.err | ssh > user at ipaddrs "cat > backup.tgz" > > > No messages went to the screen. tarlog.err is 4Mb large. Looked at it > for error messages. > > NONE! not even the one I was getting before routing stderr.out. I did > a the -l option, but that should not result in no error messages... > > So now what? Is the tar file incomplete? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com