Re: tar --remove-files chokes on symlinks
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: /RAID/System/Backup/bin: Cannot rmdir: Directory not empty
>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>
>> When I look in /RAID/System/Backup/bin, all that is left are a number
>> of
>> symlinks. Evidently, tar is unable to delete the symlinks prior to
>> attempting the directory delete. If it makes a difference, these
>> symlinks actually point to nothing. In any case, how can I get tar
>> to delete the links and complete the job?
>
> This is a known bug¹ in tar 1.23. Upgrading to the wheezy version
> helps, if that is an option for you.
Oh, how cute. That's OK, I worked around the issue.
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