Re: [BackupPC-users] tar error 256

2007-01-20 Thread Craig Barratt
Holger writes: > Another possibility could be to write a wrapper around either ssh on the > server or tar on the client to change an exit code of 1 to an exit code of 0, > but that probably has the problem of affecting more serious errors as well > (if it was as simple as patching exit code 1 to

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar error 256

2007-01-19 Thread Ralf Gross
Holger Parplies schrieb: > > Craig Barratt schrieb: > > > What version of tar are you using? Torsten reported that the > > > newest version has changed the exit status in the case of > > > certain relatively benign warnings that are therefore considerd > > > fatal by BackupPC. > > [...] > > > > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar error 256

2007-01-19 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Ralf Gross wrote on 19.01.2007 at 09:32:01 [Re: [BackupPC-users] tar error 256]: > Craig Barratt schrieb: > > What version of tar are you using? Torsten reported that the > > newest version has changed the exit status in the case of > > certain relatively benign warnin

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar error 256

2007-01-19 Thread Ralf Gross
Craig Barratt schrieb: > What version of tar are you using? Torsten reported that the > newest version has changed the exit status in the case of > certain relatively benign warnings that are therefore considerd > fatal by BackupPC. > > Could you also look through the XferLOG file and confirm tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar error 256

2007-01-18 Thread Bradley Alexander
- Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip...] > > What version of tar are you using? Torsten reported that the > newest version has changed the exit status in the case of > certain relatively benign warnings that are therefore considerd > fatal by BackupPC. Both client and server are

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar error 256

2007-01-17 Thread Ralf Gross
Craig Barratt schrieb: > Bradley writes: > > > Running into a problem with my larger machines doing backups. 90% of > > the time, the backup ends with the following message: > > > > backup failed (Tar exited with error 256 () status) > > > > I believe I read somewhere that it was due to a file cha

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar error 256

2007-01-17 Thread Craig Barratt
Bradley writes: > Running into a problem with my larger machines doing backups. 90% of > the time, the backup ends with the following message: > > backup failed (Tar exited with error 256 () status) > > I believe I read somewhere that it was due to a file changing during > backup, probably in comb