> I did break up the copy into smaller parts, but can't see how the problem > can be with tar, as it runs ok from the shell, but fails only from cron. :(
That's soundingt like a permission or paths problem. cron usually runs with a limited environment (like PATH=/bin:/usr/bin). Also does tar when run from cron know its current working directory?
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