Tar Utility (new)

[Brian Densmore]

Ok. Statement of the obvious. Sometime the answer hides in front of us.
Try excluding the current log files from the tar.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jose sanchez [mailto:j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 4:03 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org; nylug-talk at nylug.org
> Subject: Tar Utillity (new)
> 
> 
> Hello:
> 
> This is another problem I am having with the tar
> utillity:
> 
> Remember my last post; older version of tar had a file
> size limitation of 2GB. Most of the people in the list
> suggested I upgraded to a newer ditro. I did. Upgraded
> to RH 7.2. There's no file size limitation but, I have
> a different problem: I am trying to back up a server
> every night at 11:00pm. Tar fails to completely
> compress / archive. I get hundred this message: File
> changed as we read it. It then fails to finish the
> archive. This is the last error message: Tar: Error
> exit delayed from previous errors. 
> 
> Why I'm getting so many errors, No one is accessing
> the server at that time.
> 
> Any other sugestions will be apreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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