output of tar

[Lai Zit Seng]

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.

Regards,

.lzs
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