Pallav Kalva <pkalva@xxxxxx> writes: > bash-2.05b$ ./backup.sh b > 17/8E3DA9F0 > tar: tabledata/165899758/165958430: file changed as we read it > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > 17/8E8CB0A8 > bash-2.05b$ You may need to use a stupider version of tar that doesn't consider that an error condition. (Offhand I see nothing in the gnu tar man page about suppressing this error check :-() Perhaps cpio would do instead? The problem is not that you have an unusable backup, it is that if your script ignores error exits from tar, you won't be able to detect real problems. regards, tom lane
