Re: tar --remove-files chokes on symlinks

2011-06-03 Thread lrhorer
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-02 04:13 +0200, lrhorer wrote: I have a cron script that runs tar on a directory in order to clean it up and minimize its size. I run the command: tar cf Backup_Server.tar.gz --remove-files * but during the tar process I get the errors: tar:

tar --remove-files chokes on symlinks

2011-06-01 Thread lrhorer
I have a cron script that runs tar on a directory in order to clean it up and minimize its size. I run the command: tar cf Backup_Server.tar.gz --remove-files * but during the tar process I get the errors: tar: /RAID/System/Backup/bin: Cannot rmdir: Directory not empty tar: Exiting with

Re: tar --remove-files chokes on symlinks

2011-06-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-02 04:13 +0200, lrhorer wrote: I have a cron script that runs tar on a directory in order to clean it up and minimize its size. I run the command: tar cf Backup_Server.tar.gz --remove-files * but during the tar process I get the errors: tar: /RAID/System/Backup/bin: Cannot