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. You mean the tar exits or that it just returns an error code on completion? -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +