Hi folks. I have a lot of log files that change in size almost constantly, and i understand that when tar returns an error while trying to archive a file whose size has changed, the entire dump of the filesystem fails (i understand this problem exists regardless of what version of tar you are using, but please correct me if i am wrong).
Does anyone how to prevent tar from returning this error (whether a particular version of tar + flag, a hack, a patch, or whatever), and can you please send me the URL to this version/doc? I have tried using dump instead of tar, but i suppose this will result in the same problem and it doesn't work anyway for reasons best addressed in a seperate e-mail. I tried "googling" this problem, but to no avail. cheers, john.
