I notice that you're not using compression. I seem to recall having seen a thread on the local LUG list about tar silently croaking in exactly this fashion when the output file reaches 2GB in size; I'll have a look at the archives and see if I can track down more detailed info for you, as there may have been a workaround mentioned (but maybe not, also).
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Thanks for the feedback Bill, I chose not to use compression as it is a lot easer to restore individual files from a straight copy.
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. :(
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