Re: Tar: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"
On 17 Feb 2006, Andy Hawkins wrote:
> 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
>
Many thanks for this - yes, I was able to track the offending
directories in this way.
Anthony
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