OK, so there seems to be a bug in TAR that gives spurious error messages. Is there anything I can *DO* about it aside from performing a manual inspection of the log file (or a complex script) before I release the verify job?
-dP -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sabuj Pattanayek Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 9:18 AM To: Dirvish user and developer mailing list Subject: Re: [Dirvish] Archiving Dirvish backups > Tar: {filename}: file changed as we read it That's an annoying tar "bug". > Is there any chance that my daily Dirvish backup might be getting in > the way here? Does Dirvish's backup process modify the last-accessed > time of a file If dirvish is using --checksum (-c) flag it might since it has to read the file but by default I don't think it does (only checks by file modification and size). If you just do a stat on a file the access, modify, and change dates don't change in linux. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
