Hi, Reading this:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087 I ran this command from terminal being root
tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys /
But the last two lines from terminal.
/boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Why is that for? What should I do now?
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:25 AM, GMS S gmspro@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, Reading this:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087 I ran this command from terminal being root
tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys /
But the last two lines from terminal.
/boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Why is that for? What should I do now?
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The editor of the link you refer to says this: "EDIT2: At the end of the process you might get a message along the lines of 'tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors' or something, but in most cases you can just ignore that." That means that tar found some errors but it continued its operation anyway. Look at the size of the tar file, try to restore a file or two to test it.
One way to find out what is going on is to pipe the tar action to a log file and check it. Add to the end of the tar command something like " | tee tar.log", which will create a text filed named tar.log. If you find a troublesome dir, just exclude it and do a test run. Read the tar man page or eSearch the errors you get to learn more. . good luck. ~af
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:25 AM, GMS S gmspro@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, Reading this:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087 I ran this command from terminal being root
tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys /
You can do this way, but ideally your file system should be unmounted (boot from a live CD/DVD).
I, personally, use BackupPC for /home and partimage for the file system (/ and /boot).
GMS S wrote:
Hi, Reading this:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087 I ran this command from terminal being root
tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys /
I suppose some excludes could have been replaced with --one-file-system
But the last two lines from terminal.
/boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Something (not critical) has happened in the middle of the operation. Since you backup a working system, this can easily happen.
You have to review all the output of the command if you want to know what was wrong. Save the output to a log, as someone else advised you, and then find it out.