Hello, I use tar to backup my files to a server using a command
> tar cf - . --exclude-from=./.backup-exclude | (cd "$dest_dir"; tar xvf -) > > "$log_file" After finally upgrading to 1.7, I started getting the following errors: tar: ./dir-name1: Cannot change mode to rwx-w--w-: Permission denied tar: ./dir-name2: Cannot change mode to rwx-w--w-: Permission denied tar: .: Cannot change mode to rwxrw-rw-: Permission denied tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors tar exited with error status 1 on Wed Aug 11 12:56:39 EDT 2010 Irrespective of these errors, tar does copy all the files. The problem is that I use the exit status to check whether the backup succeeded or not and whether to reset the time-stamp file. So, the error status is important to me. I tried the same script to copy files from one location to another on my machine, and it works without errors. I am guessing that the problem has something to do with permissions on the server. How would I go about fixing those? Thank you, Mirko -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple