output of tar

[Götz Reinicke]

Lai Zit Seng schrieb:
> On Mon, 30 May 2005, [ISO-8859-15] Götz Reinicke wrote:
> 
>> I have some backupscripts, which save the backup onto an NFS-mounted 
>> share. From time to time, the backup quits with an error:
>>
>> /bin/tar: /export/servers/home/home-Sun.tar: Cannot open: Input/output 
>> error
>> /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>
>> How can I get more info on why the backup failes?
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Do your system logs give any hint about NFS problems? Perhaps you lost 
> connectivity to the NFS server, or something else mucked up.

No, there are no hints in the log. :-(

Regards

Götz
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