https://bugs.koozali.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11576
--- Comment #2 from Rod Egan <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Jean-Philippe Pialasse from comment #1)
> You will get that message if, for any reason, tar can't add all of the
> specified files to the tar. One if the most common is not having read
> permission on one of the files. This could be a big problem since you are
> using this for backup. If you are using the -v flag, try leaving it off.
> This should reduce the output and let you see what is going on.
>
> source:
> https://superuser.com/questions/169195/tar-exiting-with-failure-status-due-
> to-previous-errors
Ok, I can't find anything obvious and the process appears to have run as
expected.
I'll put it down as a gremlin for the moment.
I did a dummy run with the same input files.
# tar cf /dev/null -T dir.list --exclude-from exclude.list --xattrs
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: /etc/smbpasswd: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: /etc/dovecot/sharemailbox: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.d/*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: /etc/letsencrypt.sh: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
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