tar: exit delayed from previous errors
 

Hi guys,

Can you please tell me what's going on?

I am backing up a server using tar command.
Until I got this error.


tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Is my backup successful?

Help!!!

Thanks
:cry:

well I don't think your backup is successful. Is this tar incrementing on top of another tar? if it is it looks like one of your previous tars failed or somehow didn't work correctly.

It probably refers to a child process of tar (e.g. gzip if you're using -z option), which exits with an exit code not equal 0. I would not trust a backup after this kind of error...!

Check your file permissions
 

I always get this when I've chmod'ed a file such that it cant be read i.e. chmod 000 file_name... Simply make it readable and the tar error goes away.

whoah..
thank you all for replying:newbie:

trsocp, i will be applying your solution the next time I backup.
i'll let you know if it'll work.

thanks again..:D

whoah..
thank you all for replying:newbie:

trsocp, i will be applying your solution the next time I backup.
i'll let you know if it'll work.

thanks again..:D