On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:46:30AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > It definitely is a pain in the neck that GNU tar complains about files > changing underneath it --- I've looked for a way to disable that, or at > least reduce it to a warning instead of an error condition, but gtar > doesn't seem to have such a switch. You should try alternative backup > tools such as cpio or rsync. Or you might submit a patch to GNU tar. There's also a BSD version of tar, it's on at least FreeBSD (not sure if there's a stand-alone version avaiable). It might not suffer from the same problem, though I haven't tried it. I do have a machine I could try it with if that would help. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
