[rhn-users] Tar problem

[Redhat User]

On 4/4/07, Richard Riley <rriley at procuri.com> wrote:
>
> I have a nightly backup process that uses tar writing the output to a
> file on an NFS mount.  It had been working fine for weeks and suddenly
> on Tuesday started failing with error code of 141.  Anyone know where I
> can find out what the error code means.  I have tried a google search
> and looking at tar source code, both to no avail.  I have another
> machine running the exact same script also writing to NFS mount and is
> experiencing no problems.  The machine that has started failing is RHEL
> 3.  The second machine is running RHEL 4 and the NFS server is running
> RHEL 4.  They are manually kept up to date using up2date command.  Here
> is the script.
>
> day=`date +%a`
> if [ "$day" == "Sun" ]
>    then
>         STAMP="Wk`date +%U`-$day`date +%m%d%H%M`"
>    else
>         STAMP="$day`date +%m%d%H%M`"
> fi
>
> logfile=/var/log/db-bkup/bkuplog-$STAMP
> db_bkup_file=$bkup_hold_dir/`hostname`-db_bkup-$STAMP.tar.gz
>
> # Stop mysql process to start backup, force flush to disk
> /sbin/service mysql stop
>
> echo "backup started at `date`" >$logfile
> cd /home/
>
> # backup /var/lib/mysql to $db-bkup-file directory
> tar -czv --ignore-failed-read --totals mysql >$db_bkup_file 2>>$logfile
> CODE=$?
> if [ $CODE == 0 ]
> then
>    echo "backup completed at `date`" >>$logfile
> else
>    echo "Backup failed at `date` with error code ($CODE)" >>$logfile
> fi
>
> # Start mysql service again, will resync with master at this point
> /sbin/service mysql start
>
>
> The tar command is failing in the exact same place every time,
> regardless of when run from cron or kicked off manually.  I know this by
> the logfile which shows a list of all the files written.  It appears to
> be part way through a directory.  If I run tar on that directory alone,
> it completes fine.  I can find no other error indicators.
>
>
>
> Richard Riley
> System Administrator
>
> Procuri Inc.
> www.procuri.com


Why are you asking about tar usage on this email list?  Was this page not
clear enough?

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