Greetings everyone, I seem to have a problem with my tar backups.
When I check the backed up information, I see: -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 102400000 Mar 8 12:00 backup1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 102400000 Mar 7 12:00 backup2.tar.gz Weird, since the backup1 file (made today) should be bigger than the one that rolled over to backup2 from yesterday; I installed OpenOffice 1.0.2. When listing the contents of the backup1 file (tar -tzf backup1.tar.gz), tar lists part of the file and then tells me gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I run Mandrake 8.2 with [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 The command I use to make the backup-file is tar -czf backup1.tar.gz -X ~/div/dont_do ~/* where ~/div/dontdo contains the extensions of some files I do not want backed up. Am I hitting some kind of limit with tar files? Would be strange, at work we tar files that grow into the 1Gb size (running HP-UX though). Paul -- If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. -William Penn http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro
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