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08-28-2003, 12:36 PM	#1
cli_man Member Registered: Apr 2002 Location: New York, USA Distribution: Redhat 7.2, 9.0 Slackware 9.1 Posts: 428 Rep:	Tar Backup Problem I have a tar backup that runs nightly on my webserver, I am having a problem with the backups quitting halfway through because they come accross a file that changed during the backup or an open file. Is there a way to ignore the errors and have tar keep going? The data I am trying to backup is always in use and I can't shut it down. Thanks

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