On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Michal Svoboda <[email protected]> wrote: > And also much less accurate. Due to this tar exits with non-zero error > code, making other processes fail even when nothing is wrong.
If you examine the exit code, you can distinguish this and other relatively harmless errors from other, more significant errors. See http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC33 Amanda uses this to mark "file changed as we read it" as a STRANGE, but not FAILED, backup. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
