http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/continuous-archiving.html says:
""" Also, some versions of GNU tar consider it an error if a file is changed while tar is copying it. There does not seem to be any very convenient way to distinguish this error from other types of errors, other than manual inspection of tar's messages. GNU tar is therefore not the best tool for making base backups. """ However, GNU tar returns 2 for a real error and 1 for the file changed case. Isn't that sufficient? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
