Les Mikesell wrote: > 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? I figured out I need to do a file count for the directories I am Taring and what is in the tar file.