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tar backup errors

When backing up my root partition, I am getting the following errors with tar:

Code:

.

..

...



/bin/readlink

/bin/vdir

/bin/ping

/bin/sort

/bin/uname

/bin/getopt

/bin/zforce

/bin/sha224sum

/bin/tsort

/bin/which

/bin/sha512sum

/bin/red

/bin/md5sum

/bin/znew

tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Here is my partition table:

Code:

df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/root              16G  11G  4.0G  73% /

/dev/sda5              68G  42G  24G  65% /home

tmpfs                1.3G    0  1.3G  0% /dev/shm

/dev/sda1              26G  20G  6.3G  76% /win

/dev/sdb1            466G  305G  162G  66% /mnt/hd

And the command I am running:

Code:

# tar --exclude win --exclude mnt --exclude home --exclude tmp -cvzf root-04242010.tar.gz /

... in the directory /mnt/hd/backups/greypine

The failure code is 2, or least that's the value of $? when tar exits.

Other than its pretty non-descriptive. Backups are important, so how can I investigate this? I've repeated the same thing 4 times with the same results, it always fails in the same file: /bin/znew.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mkoco (Post 3946397)

When backing up my root partition, I am getting the following errors with tar:

Code:

.

..

...



/bin/readlink

/bin/vdir

/bin/ping

/bin/sort

/bin/uname

/bin/getopt

/bin/zforce

/bin/sha224sum

/bin/tsort

/bin/which

/bin/sha512sum

/bin/red

/bin/md5sum

/bin/znew

tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Here is my partition table:

Code:

df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/root              16G  11G  4.0G  73% /

/dev/sda5              68G  42G  24G  65% /home

tmpfs                1.3G    0  1.3G  0% /dev/shm

/dev/sda1              26G  20G  6.3G  76% /win

/dev/sdb1            466G  305G  162G  66% /mnt/hd

And the command I am running:

Code:

# tar --exclude win --exclude mnt --exclude home --exclude tmp -cvzf root-04242010.tar.gz /

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=how+to+backup

Error code 2 = "No such file or directory" or "File not found"

Just as a test, does it also fail if you add --ignore-failed-read ?