Re: Tar: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

[Andy Hawkins <andy@gently.org.uk>]

Hi,

In article <[🔎] 20060217103944.GB6265@acampbell.org.uk>,
           Anthony Campbell<ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> I'm using the current tar version from Unstable to back up my home
> partition.
>
> If I do "tar -cvf home.tar  /home/ac" everything seems to go correctly
> but ends with the message "Error exit delayed from previous errors".

Capture stderr to a file (tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac 2>/logfile.txt) and
check through that. Somewhere there'll be an error (perhaps a file that
couldn't be read)

Andy